Füxa - Hideaway 7"
(Mind Expansion)
New Füxa. This has come to mean something disappointing with the last few releases: Füxa 2000, Add N to Fu(x)a, and the Ectogram split. This single finds Füxa back at home in Detroit (for the time being) and releasing 7"s on Randall's own Mind Expansion after a long dry spell. And, despite the essentially-a-flexi quality of the vinyl (Tiger Style's biggest contender for the closest-to-a-flexi honor) and the gaping absence of psychedelic inserts, this is, to a certain extent a return to form.
"Hideaway" is the A-side and features Jo Doran and Stephen Lawrie (both of the Telescopes and Unisex). This is exactly what I would have imagined the combination of the early 90's Creation Records/shoegaze scene and the Detroit space "rock" scene to sound like. If only Randall could write basslines like Ryan use to, this would be perfect.
Side-B is a "radio edit" of Füxa's cover of Suicide's "Girl" which was on Füxa 2000, and has none other than Mr. Sonic Boom (of Spectrum, E.A.R. and Spacemen 3) singing on it. I can't tell if it was remixed or remastered, or just edited, but it sounds much better than the album version. The keyboards don't sound goofy, and the vocals are both hazy and penetrating. Great improvement. If Füxa 2000 got this treatment, maybe it would have turned out great. Or maybe "Girl" is unchanged and the surrounding album simply ruined it in their context.
In any case, this single and "Supercharged" (from last year's Rocket Girl compilation) have gotten me very excited for the new Füxa full length this spring.
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