Free-D (Original Soundtrack) cover

Free-D (Original Soundtrack)

Released

After the release of their Fluidtrance Centauri EP, it was easy enough to pigeonhole Czech group The Ecstasy Of Saint Theresa as second-wave shoegazers. Their subsequent album, Free-D (Original Soundtrack), blew that all apart. Expansive and wide-eyed, its ambient drift settled closer to post-rock groups like Bark Psychosis, though the cautious, spacious repetitions of songs like “Her Eyes Have It” and “Vacuum Blow” echo the shimmering ambience of The Irresistible Force, and “Surfing On Steam” is a pastoral techno mantra, as though Ummagumma-era Pink Floyd landed at acid house club Shoom.

Jon Dale

Recommended by

Suggestions
Little Desert cover

Little Desert

not drowning, waving
Clean cover

Clean

Severed Heads
A Son cover

A Son

Pan American
Sleeps With the Fishes cover

Sleeps With the Fishes

Michael Brook, Pieter Nooten
Instrumentals cover

Instrumentals

Mouse on Mars
Vega cover

Vega

Andrew Chalk
August 1974 cover

August 1974

Taj Mahal Travellers