The Comedy of Errors: Whipping Boy - Astronaut Blues (28 June 1992)

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Another tremendous cut from the Dublin quartet’s debut album, Submarine.  Peel was talking this album up over late June ‘92, confessing that he had not cared much for Whipping Boy’s previous work but in the case of the Submarine LP there were “...4 or 5 tracks I would recommend without reservation”.

Having previously included and raved about the title track on here a few weeks ago (one of my favourite tracks of the 1992 selections), we now go from the depths of the ocean, out into to the Solar System, grazing “Martian skies” in a gorgeous glide through dreams, space and the edges of Heaven all furnished with Fearghal McKee’s spacey echoed vocals, brushed drums and liquid guitars including one line that sounds like it’s been handed down to them by Pink Floyd all the way from 1969.  It aces the whole spacey-love-bliss-comedown vibe that so many bands were striving to attain in 1992 and does it in three-quarters of the duration that The Verve used to drone on for at that time.  Dublin’s better than Wigan too.

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