Any Day Now

The Legendary Pink Dots: The Prophet Qa'Sepel, The Silver Man, Stret Majest Alarme, Graham Whitehead, Patrick Q., Jason.
Additional personnel: Lady Sunshine (vocals); Tony Copier (drums).
Edward Ka-Spel and his Legendary Pink Dots are one of rock's enigmatic wonders. Arising out of a strange and experimental European hybrid of musical styles where industrial, dance, psychedelia and electronica merge and convulse together, the Dots have carved out a massive back catalogue of charming, warped whimsy, disturbed fever-dreams, and nether worldly travelogues. ANY DAY NOW saw them moving further away from their post-industrial and experimental roots to an area firmly grounded in equal parts progressive rock, kaleidoscopic psychedelia and random soundscaping.
Ka-Spel's syrupy warble paints him as the Lewis G. Carroll of psych-"A Strychnine Kiss" and "Neon Mariners" are songs dreamed up by drug-addled elves messing around in a studio, reinventing nursery rhymes better suited for nightmares than daydream. Yet Ka-Spel's fertile imagination stays just this close to the light. Surrounding his flights of fancy are thick beds of skittering rhythms, guitars whose strings are concocted from nightshade, and all manners of unidentifiable sounds erupting out of a moist pool of electronics and weird gadgets. The Dots occupy a glorious niche that remains peculiarly their own.