The Moonlandingz - No Rocket Required [Transparent milky clear vinyl]

Format: Coloured Vinyl LP
Catalogue No.: TRANS845XS
Barcode: 5400863180294
Release Date: 25 Apr 2025
Genre: Psych/Garage Rock

 The Moonlandingz have returned, seven long years after their debut. When they first emerged from Valhalla Dale they were a semi-fictional band bringing us sticky, squelchy pop songs to offer solace and punishment in the months following the Brexit vote and Trump’s first victory.
 Adrian Flanagan, Dean Honer and Lias Saoudi - aka The Moonlandingz - conspired with Yoko Ono, Rebecca Taylor, Phil Oakey and the Cowboy from The Village People to
make one of the great albums of 2017, and we needed it. ‘Interplanetary Class Classics’ was a dose of unreality equal to the unhinged times we were stumbling into.
 The Moonlandingz have finally returned - not when we wanted them but now that we need them - galloping in on their four horses, bareback and howling, with their eagerly
awaited forthcoming album ‘No Rocket Required’.
 ‘No Rocket Required’ delivers brassy squawks, motorik convulsions and sinister soothing vocals from a righteous line-up of guest singers and ranters: Nadine Shah, Iggy Pop, Jessica Winter and Ewen Bremner. Plus, of course, there’s The Moonlandingz’ own front man, Johnny Rocket aka Lias Saoudi, who has the wobbly-horny voice of R
Whites’ secret lemonade drinker on ‘Give Me More’ and then becomes basically Kris Kristofferson of the Pennines in the middle of epic ‘The Krack Drought Suite’, imparting gnomic sawdust saloon wisdom from a barstool in Huddersfield. Mostly though, he’s the man we know from Fat White Family with the gravelly crooning (used to especially great effect in ‘Roustabout’, his duet with Nadine Shah). Working Men’s Club lead singer Syd Minsky-Sargeant also played various instruments across multiple tracks on the album.
 LP pressed on Transparent Milky Clear vinyl.

Tracklisting
Some People's Music
The Sign of A Man
Roustabout
The Insects Have Been Shat On
It's Where I'm From
All Out Of Pop
Yama Yama
Give Me More
Stink Foot
The Krack Drought Suite (Pts 1-3)