I Hear A New World – JOE MEEK & THE BLUE MEN**

I Hear A New World/Orbit Around The World/Entry Of The Globbots/The Bublight/March Of The Dribcots/Love Dance Of The Saroos/Glob Waterfall/Magnetic Field/Valley Of The Saroos/Dribcots Space Boat/Disc Dance Of The Globbots/Valley Of No Return

Producer Joe Meek’s first stab at futurism, I Hear A New World, is a big disappointment. Compared to the heights he would reach with The Tornados in just a couple of years, with the possible exception of Love Dance Of The Saroos, these tracks are depressingly trite.

“This is really only for die hard Joe Meek fans. I can see what he was getting at - space sounds etc., and he was years ahead of his time. However these recordings lack what made Joe Meek's innovative music really great - good songwriting. This is self indulgent in the extreme.”

“Sorry to say, this just isn't very good to listen to. Not to worry, Joe would soon put out lots of good stuff that we still enjoy and much of it evolved from this.

“All the songs deal with a journey to moon, and what life may be like on it. It is a bizarre vision to say the least, which includes speeded up voices of space creatures, armies of 'Globbots', and plentiful sci-fi noises and sound effects. If you're expecting it to be full of Telstar like instrumentals, you'll be disappointed.”

“Even in its aural vagueness, it's still an extremely early example of someone dreaming up the potential for rock music beyond the seven inch single. I'm just glad someone recorded something like this in that optimistic blip of time between the invention of magnetic tape and the actual Moon landing.”

“Vacillates between being something sublime and something utterly horrible. Otherworldly and brilliant on the one hand, novelty and goofy on the other.

“Some of this just plain awful. But, its so awful it collapses upon itself like a dead star and becomes awesome in its own peculiar way.

“Most space age pop was just easy listening lounge music in disguise. But these songs are borderline frightening, if not just really silly sounding. Take Glob Waterfall, for example. The song is very minimal, with bubbly sounds that are like a foreboding of something much worse to come.”