headband: magnetic earth

Space travel, we all love it, it’s inviting, it’s magical, it’s repetitive and it’s fun, just like Duncan Moore’s sonic addition to the genre, “Magnetic Earth”. Blurry nuggets of noise and reverb laden shots appear to the left and right of the listener as the Navigator (track two) drives out of the A-side and onto the Magnetic Earth (track three). There are no lyrics on the tape and the sonic similarities to the sci-fi sound design canon are loose, the spacialization of the sounds only vaguely referencing the world of film. The audience is free to imagine whatever is intriguing at the given moment. Spoiling an ending is never the intention, however, it can be said that there is a twist which invites inquiry into whatever happened to the last crew, and how their ship managed to keep record of their log, listen to find out!