01 December 2025

BEHIND THE SUN COLLECTIVE – Children Of The Revolution/Maggot Brain (2025, 7”, Fruits de Mer Records)

RELEASE INFO:

Label: Fruits de Mer Records

Format: 7”, Single, Limited Edition, Random Color 1, 150 copies

Format: 7”, Single, Limited Edition, Random Color 2, 150 copies

Release Date: 15 Dec 2025

Some bands are hard to pin down; Behind The Sun Collective seem determined to make that the whole point. Fresh recruits to the ever-mutating Fruits de Mer orbit, they first turned heads at the label’s 2024 summer festival with a set that refused to obey gravity – psychedelia collapsing into jazz-drum spirals, grunge-slick guitars grinding against throbbing bass lines, and synth soundscapes beamed in from some distant, radio-crackling quadrant of deep space.

Now they channel that unclassifiable swirl into a debut 7″ that tackles not one but two sacred beasts of the electric canon: Marc Bolan’s glam-riot anthem “Children of the Revolution” and Funkadelic’s cosmic dirge “Maggot Brain”. It’s the kind of pairing that shouldn’t work, unless, of course, you’re a band that thrives on reshaping expectations. With Dandelion Florence stepping in for lead vocals on “Revolution,” and the core Collective (Cos, Shep, Kev, Andi & Robert) firing on all cylinders, the result isn’t reverent so much as fearlessly reimagined. You might not predict where these versions go, but disappointment isn’t on the map.

A: “Children Of The Revolution” (4:30)
The 1972 T. Rex original may have strutted its way to No. 2 on the UK charts – with Elton John and Ringo lending stardust – but Behind The Sun Collective take Bolan’s glam wink and shoot it straight into the Heavy Acid nebula. Their reinterpretation is both respectful and eruptive, pulsing with heavy-space energy that instantly summons early Hawkwind. A superb, astounding reimagining that refracts a glam classic through deep-cosmic distortion.

B: “Maggot Brain” (4:01)
Funkadelic’s original “Maggot Brain” was a haunted 10-minute psilocybin sermon, (George Clinton, under the influence of LSD, told guitarist Eddie Hazel during the recording session to play as if he had been told his mother was dead), one take, 1971, pure psychic overload. Behind The Sun Collective tighten the runtime but amplify the gravity: less trippy, more space-burdened, heavier in all the right frequencies. It feels like some long-misplaced Hawkwind archive cover from ’71 finally beamed back to Earth. And if even one new listener uses this as a gateway to Funkadelic—or to Hawkwind’s first era—then mission accomplished! TimeLord Michalis