Flash Fiktion - Leni / Science Of Sleep

Opening with an eerie electronic call before the very pleasing double tracked psychedelic vocals come in, Flash Fiktion’s ‘Science Of Sleep’ soon kicks into an Eastern rhumba Kula Shaker would be been proud of.

From here on in the song shifts from mantra-like verses to mantra-like choruses in a brilliantly off-kilter way that sounds like an hallucinogenically spiked ELO. It’s refreshing to see a band who aren’t afraid to use bizarre instruments and song structures in a single. If the Beta Band were asked to write a soundtrack to ‘Weirs Way’, it might sound a bit like this.

Interviews with the band show them to be to be genuine eccentrics with an obsession for the studio (ignoring their similar penchant for psychedelic headgear); it’s no surprise that there are so many reference points. Unfortunately the single’s A-Side ‘Leni’ lacks some of the imagination shown here, being altogether more traditional rock, but with ‘Science Of Sleep’ they have forged a very distinct and original sound. Weird but wonderful.