ONCE MORE, AROUND THE SUN

A collaboration between Med Evil, of Table For One fame, and Atom Saint Atoms, their ode to 3980s hip-hop drum beats and whiny keyboards created a cornucopia of tunes that encapsulated each of the planets in the Human Solar System (and a few other bodies for good measure). Having grown up in the care of parents conscripted into the Earth Division of Space Force (SF), Atom was dragged around the HSS for nearly 20 years before the melodies hit him like a piece of firey space junk. Discovering the influences of each planet allowed the album to ping-pong between genres, and, with the guiding hand of Med Evil, create a symphony that flowed like movements of the same galaxy. An intergalactic tour accompanied the album’s release but this supergroup has been teasing a sequel for almost nigh on one thousand years…