Album Review: Sunship Balloon - Intergalactic Teacup Travel Centre

Trickling synths, deep bass lines and airy vocals are in the foreground of Intergalactic Teacup Travel Centre, the debut EP from Sunship Balloon, aka Dan Haggis and Tord Øverland-Knudsen from Brit-pop act The Wombats. 

Opening track Up On The Moon dives in deep with a planetary atmosphere of high reverb and whirring guitar, while In Plastic We Trust delivers a textured soundscape of distorted samples and quirky sounds. 

Complex Animals’ funky electro bass line is an instant hook, its upbeat, fun dance grooves mirroring The Wombats' stylings. Quirky lyrical content - “Survival is a gym membership/And a kombucha” - navigates the weird and wacky nature of the human condition before a distorted robotic voice states, “and they lived happily ever after”. 

Vocal stabs and rough drum beats kick the soft and eerie We Could Stop This into mild chaos, before we come back down to earth as whirs, bleeps and chirps conclude the galactic adventure with instrumental Outro (The Great Outdoors - OMPS).