My Electric Love Affair 'As if I get confused' EP (Self Released). This space cadets is limited to 500 copies only, all pressed on 12" black vinyl and if there's any justice in the world will fly out of the racks quicker than a bullet from a gun. Now this will probably get me shot and I know for a fact that this is going to the gaff to end all gaffs, but the picture adorning the sleeve, is that a very young Jean Michel Jarre we spy? Okay sleeve review done, nice and easy wasn't it. This lot you probably won't be to surprised to hear were recommended to me by Geoff of Static Caravan. My Electric Love Affair are an Edinburgh based quartet though it's difficult to be certain given their record sleeve / website seems shrouded in the kind of non information as to make early classic New Order / Peter Saville art work look positively abundant in clues. One thing we are certain about though is that like Mugstar, MELA are also fully paid up members of the 1st Battalion of the Spacemen 3 (Scottish Division). 'As if I get confused' is cut from the same astral planed meditatively enhanced sonic white noise that Harrison would have achieved if Lennon had allowed him to decorate his sitar with all manner of fuzz and reverb pedals and just go off on one while everyone went for a quick spliff on the roof. Head emptying bleached out mind control is what you get, fans of Boom and Co will not go un-rewarded as this sounds like a fight between Telescopes / Spacemen 3 over whose turn it is to pilot the space buggy though the more attentively tuned among you my suffer flashbacks to a short lived combo from the early 90's unfairly tarnished with the baggy tag by the name of My Jealous God and whose 'Everything about you' this is less than a light star away from. Flip the disc for two more treats from the dark side of your minds eye; 'Untitled' (here played at a variety of speeds and all sounding superb) is a slow (again depending on what speed you play it, here done at 33rpm though the 45rpm will mean substituting the words slow moving with cruise control) moving head on collision between (and we kid you not) the Stone Roses 'Fool's Gold' and the latter half of 'I am the resurrection' (just after the bit where monkey boy goes home) however not before being dragged through a gritty quarry and forced to smoke a whole bag of skunk. Last call for the space bus is the suitably lysergic 'Four track demo' which for those of you like wah wah's might be inclined to think you've dead and gone to effects pedal heaven and which to our utmost delight has a ever so brief moment of harmonica drifting in through the haze of fuzz near the close. The more rugged cut of the three with MELA showing their 70's prog / psyche teeth, packed to the hilt with dissolving shimmer like riffs its sounds like the themes from 'OGWT' and 'World in Action' being fed through distortion drive by a particularly chilled out Terry Bickers / Levitation. Single of the Missive without argument.

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