Special Features: Limited to 500 copies on 180 gram blue vinyl.
Tracklisting:
Side A
- Sun Birth
- Into Your Skin
- Obsession
Side B
- Chameleon Earth
- Opium Dreams
- Sun Death
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Label: Sulatron Records
Origin: Germany
It’s worth noting outright that Strobe’s Bunker Sessions was recorded in 1994. Not because it sounds dated, but just the opposite. The Sulatron Records release from the under-exposed UK psychedelic rockers finds them jamming out in live-in-studio fashion, and if you’d told me with no other context that the resultant six-track/40-minute long-player was put to tape two months ago, I’d absolutely have believed it. This would’ve been the era of their 1994 third album, The Circle Never Ends, and while some can hear some relation between that and Bunker Sessions in the shimmering lead and warm underscoring basslines of 10-minute opener and longest track (immediate points) “Sun Birth,” the drift in “Chameleon Earth,” synth-laden space rock meandering of “Opium Dreams” and cymbal-wash-into-distortion-wash of closer “Sun Death” are on a wavelength of their own. It’s something of a curio release – a “lost album” – but it’s also bound to turn some heads onto how ahead of their time Stobe were in the ‘90s, and maybe we’ll get lucky and Sulatron will use it to kick off a full series of convenient LP reissues. - The Obelisk (TheObelisk.net http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/tag/strobe-bunker-sessions/)