The Moonlandingz

Interplanetary Class Classics

Fabricated supergroup plugs into the mains. They first manifested as an imaginary band on Sheffield conceptualists The Eccentronic Research Council’s 2015 album Johnny Rocket… Now The Moonlandingz – fronted by The Fat White Family’s Lias Saoudi, in stackheeled glittery boots and cod-piece – might just have twitched into more vigorous life than both parent groups. A deviant blend of filthy pop and pre-digital electronics that suggests the glam era, Abba and Earl Brutus, this disc is bloated with anti-matter sing-alongs to savour. Single Black Hanz brings motorik hypno-boogie with dirty glitterballs (“castrate yourself, not once, but thrice!” it boomingly commands), I.D.S. is a novelty garage-surf spooker invoking “40,000 years of Job Club” and This Cities Undone is the final shattering detonation, a choral freakout suitable for the nuke-worshipping muties in Beneath The Planet Of The Apes, with a touch of Tomorrow Never Knows. Top drawer psycho-disco for malcontents and the disillusioned, then. Ian Harrison