Sciflyer - Energizer [CD]

2015 EP. Just after the release of Sciflyer's long-delayed "They Only Believe in The Moon" last year, guitarist Steve Kennedy was going thru some boxes of old random band stuff when he happened across an interesting find - an old external drive of sessions recorded in 2003 at Insta-Fame studios in Portland. After sifting thru the material he had discovered another "lost" single, `Energizer', a song they had worked on intensely at the time but eventually abandoned for what he describes as "having lost the plot from over-proximity". Also found was an incredibly rockin' version of `You're From The Ocean' with an entirely different set of lyrics and melodic structure than the version on their debut, Fair Weather Karma (2003). Seeing the find as a sign from Dog, Steve set about (re)mixing the two songs. More than a decade away from `Energizer' - truth is he had completely forgotten it even existed - gave him the ability to see the forest in spite of the trees and bring the song to full realization. `You're From The Ocean' practically mixed itself. And this one might actually be better than the original, a song that Fred Mills (Magnet) once swore could've passed for a long-lost Swervedriver outtake. To these he has added a remake leftover from the Moon Sessions - `Letting Go of Everything', which might be yet another case of being even better the second time around; a smoking hot live Sin City rendition of their space-surf hit, `Beyond The Event Horizon' from their wildly popular (tho since disowned) 2001 self-titled independent release; and for the finale, `Time Bomb', a brooding and wordy song they deleted from The Age of Lovely Intimate Things at the last minute back in 2005.