Catherine Wheel's 1992 debut album, Ferment, was a magic sounding album! This thing epitomizes for me (along with a handful of other great albums) the damned exciting potential of the 90s alternative music scene. It is a legendary shoegazer classic. At times Ferment's sound is a sonic wall of thick fuzziness and at others, there are moments of crystalline beauty. An album like Ferment comes along very rarely. Not a bad or indifferent track on it. With hit songs like Black Metallic and I Want To Touch You, this should be in the music collection of any serious devotee of the alt-90 sound. It's like a melancholic freeze frame of what could be, before the greed heads decided to place their formidable weight behind the push for what they wanted alt music to sound like. In short, before the douchebags ruined probably the most exciting time in music since the 70s psychedelic movement. All in all, Ferment is a great representation of that time in music history when anything seemed possible and music had the power to create revolutions.
Tracks:
1. "Texture" – 4:19
2. "I Want to Touch You" – 4:40
3. "Black Metallic" – 7:18
4. "Indigo Is Blue" – 5:31
5. "She's My Friend" – 4:16
6. "Shallow" – 3:28
7. "Ferment" – 5:10
8. "Flower to Hide" – 4:43
9. "Tumbledown" – 4:08
10. "Bill and Ben" – 4:09
11. "Salt" – 5:26
12. "Balloon" – 3:56
(Although The Catherine Wheel have disbanded, lead singer Rob Dickinson has a wonderful MySpace page to check out: http://www.myspace.com/robdickinson)
--Nickolas Cook
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