Exploding Universe

Made a name for themselves on the isolated yet thriving mid-70s Cornish pub, club and festival scene. After the widely approved career retrospective 'When Silence Was Sound' , the reunited, reconfigured and reinvigorated Brainiac 5 return with 'Exploding Universe'. This new offering shows the enthusiasm and drive of those recordings have not been dimmed, and that the Brainiacs are still developing in new directions. Horns have now been added and a wider range of musical styles mined, yet this is still clearly very much a Brainiac 5 record, brimming with energy and invention. As before, few areas are truly off limits as they traverse their psych-punk blueprint through the neighbourhoods of funk, reggae and jazz on what is their most adventurous, yet focused, recording yet. The album features a cameo from founder member and renowned Cornish poet Bert Biscoe, alongside appearances from the equally renowned Gertrude Stein and G I Gurdjieff. It was lovingly mixed by their longtime engineer, Hawkwind's Martin Griffin.