In short: a great album - the songs are permanently switching between heavy and powerful rock-sequences - pushed forward by huge riffs - and inventive, strange and atmospheric soundscapes.
The title track builds up slowly from a pure atmospheric soundscape over an ever-expanding, hypnotic rhythm into a full-blown space-rock-ish guitar track.

Far Flung's sounds could be described (if needed....) as experimental psychedelic - sonic spaces. There are the influences of early German electro avantgardos - like the earliest Tangerine Dream incarnation - along the traces of the heavier sides of Hawkwind - still its Far Flung's very own sound - taking all of it a good few steps further. And at its best moments (which are quite a few) the album develops a truly hypnotic / addictive effect.

Apart from that, the album contains another Hawkwind reference to their bizarre instrumental track The Aubergine that ate Rangoon - and yet another one in the loose collaboration with Roger Neville-Neil - a former friend of Calvert, who wrote the lyrics for the album's title song and supplied the band with some conceptual background for it.

1. The Raven That Ate The Moon
2. Sonic Evaporation
3. Alius Orbis
4. The Way The Sky Is