Legendary Pink Dots, Orbit Service
Anglo-Dutch goth-psychedelic group the Legendary Pink Dots have been haunting the musical fringes for over 35 years, accumulating a significant, cultish fanbase despite little commercial airplay and releases on small labels. Through the band's staunch devotion to their brand of pastoral, spacey, polyglot rock and vocalist Edward Ka-Spel's dramatic, enervated spiels, LPD appeal to melancholy dreamers. Ka-Spel's voice bears a Syd Barrett-like lugubriousness that complements LPD's rambling, often disorienting excursions into the Floydian slipstream. DAVE SEGAL