A week or so ago I completed a run down of Darren Hayman's 12 Astronauts on here. It's worthy of greater attention as it's a finely honed record indeed. Focusing in chronological order on the 12 American men who walked on the men and the strangeness and utterly life changing experience that this surely was. Hayman does a marvellous job throughout.
The songs, written from the perspective of each of these men in turn, are disembodied in the way that the very best 'space' songs are. At once deeply individual and universal, as if the individuals concerned were embarked on an adventure for the rest of us while going through something that changed them irreparably, for good and ill. Hayman's train (or perhaps spacespotter) , scrutiny to biographical detail, differentiating the twelve men in terms of how their time on the surface of the moon impacted on them and charted the paths their lives came to take once they'd departed it, shows true artistry.
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