Album Notes

Drug Bubbles features VDO at their freaky psychedelic best. I had received a pre-released of this a long time ago and mentioned it in our first coverage of the band in the October 1998 issue of AI. But this is a great disc and I'm glad it's finally been released. This version of VDO includes Matt Castille, Eric Lumbleau, David Fargason, Jim Edgerton, Anna Edgerton, and Doug Ferguson, (Ohm, Yeti).

The crazed psychedelia that characterizes Drug Bubbles is really the side of VDO that I first discovered, having been introduced to them via the LP releases "Saturation" and "Zyzzybaloubab". All the studio manipulations and mayhem that are present on other VDO releases are here, but the pace is less manic and far more cosmic. There's also lots more guitar on Drug Bubbles than the other discs reviewed in this article. And the most cosmic and inventive of influences are here... Amon Düül, Can, and the earliest Pink Floyd on the one hand, but elements of the RIO progressive school like Aksak Maboul, Univers Zero, and Fred Frith on the other. As usual the band is cramming in a continual stream of changing themes, but it works well as everything seems to transition quite smoothly.

VDO's method of mind expansion involves bringing in a construction crew to knock down the walls and build an addition. Don't expect their brand of psychedelia to let you drift away while you focus on your mantra. But if you believe in the benefits of shock therapy then Drug Bubbles gets my highest recommendation. Excerpt from aural-innovations See it ...
http://www.aural-innovations.com/issues/issue10/vdo02.html