Fans of LA rock from the mid/late 70`s have been hearing/reading about Zolar X for years(but not lately) and wondering what on earth did this band really sound like?! Answer here. Meet the strangest known band from the pre-punk dayze of glam. A sound like no other and a story as out there as the The Monks. We`re talking commitment here - spacesuits, Spock ears, even antennae feelers - onstage, on the street, and wherever they made the scene. ZOLAR-X spoke their own language, and insisted they really were from outer space to anyone who could get past their, er, unique hairdos long enough to listen. Musically it`s a mesh of Bowie, Sweet, Pink Floyd, The Runaways(but they are all guys here), The Tubes, early Sparks, some Stooges, obscure mid 70`s glam bands and old Pentagram with amazing vocals and surprisingly stellar production. Whew! After listening this fascinating document, I was like "Whoa...what on earth *was* that?! Cool!". 20 songs, great packaging and the full(weird, sad) story inside. "4 stars... They were wrapped in a bubblegum cosmology that owed as much to Sid & Marty Krofft as it did to Ziggy Stardust, and they framed themselves with a unified "look" much like the Ramones would a few years later and a million miles away, Zolar X had stylish bleached locks accented with antennae, freakish space costumes and appropriately interstellar names like Zory Zenith and Ygarr Ygarrist... Out of step with the times they may have been, but the songs collected on Timeless sound completely in tune with the high-energy rock continuum that inspired them in the first place. Stuck somewhere in the sticky carbonated hard rock of Sweet, Cheap Trick and even late- `70s, new wave- leaning Hawkwind, Zolar X riffs on space, space science, love in space, and more space on "Jet Star 19," "Test Tube Baby," "Plutonian Elf Story" and the brilliantly titled "I Pulled My Helmet Off (I`m Going to Love Her.)" Sure, they should have been bigger than the blip on L.A. nightlife than they were, but the world was not ready for Zolar X then, and most of the world still won`t know what to think of them, but this return to earthly orbit should find a few more receptive ears."-AMG.
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