*100 copies limited edition* This is what Planet! does: it sends you, straight away, to a gray two-faced satellite. On a fictitious projectile that seems to have come out of that withered phantasmagoria of Georges Méliès: Le Voyage dans la lune, do you know it?
This collection of tracks grew out of a live score of Georges Méliès short films at the Philosophical Research Society in January 2024. Méliès films are bizarre and fantastical, at times delving into the macabre. But they are also comical, mischievous, and playful. It is this sense of playful mischief that guided Planet! in its gestation.
What happens when hallucinatory future-world terror is faced with a sense of antic absurdity? Put to music, it sounds more or less like this.