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Six years after their future shock treatise, Dead Cities, FSOL's Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans return with a psychedelic songfest that exchanges electronic ambient loops, trip-hop beats, and alien textures for backwards guitars, sitar symphonies, and Donovan-style folk songs. You can still hear the FSOL intellect and collagist aesthetic, but the duo has abandoned the sequencer-created hallucinations of their 1994 masterpiece, Lifeforms. Drums, brass, strings, percussion, and vocals were recorded live in their London studio, and the sounds were then filtered through a computer and turned into a cosmic song cycle. With Mellotrons surrounding Cobain's ethereal vocals, the "I Am the Walrus" dirge of "The Mello Hippie Disco Show" collides with the bucolic serenity of "Goodbye Sky." "The Lovers" recreates a boiling Hendrix funk meltdown, "Galaxial Pharmaceutical" recalls the epic bluster of Pink Floyd, and "Guru Song" evokes the droning loops of The Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows." It all works as magically as a tab of Timothy Leary's finest. The Isness is a psychedelic classic, 30 years late. --Ken Micallef
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