Paradise 9 are a band that have sat there on the outer rim of my radar, they were formed back in 1997 and have played so many festivals that I have no idea why I’ve not caught them, but this happens. With a sound that encompasses so many genres, it slides across space and time too, decades of sounds that have culminated in this eight track meandering oddness. Science Fiction Reality is an Album/Ep or something in-between, having already released two albums on two EP’s, this could a culmination of the latter. At first look, the track listing and song lengths did give a bit of a feeling of dread, especially when some class their sound in the prog rock bracket, but to be rather blunt about it, thank fuck that wasn’t quite what you get, although the ending track ‘Safe Havens...
