“And Still They Come”
by Atlantic Rising
2007 song
The leadoff track on the obscure 2007 album SOS Radio is called "And Still They Come". It’s an eight-minute long jam led by a pulsing, rapidly-picked guitar. If you’re familiar with David Gilmour’s introductory section of Pink Floyd’s “Run Like Hell”, imagine that going on and on and on. That’s the hypnotic reality of "And Still They Come". The album is credited to Atlantic Rising.
Over the guitar and other more minor effects Sky Saxon does his regular vocal thing. He sounds good, is well recorded and is clearly fired up by the anti-war feelings that have him in a tizzy. As usual, his bleak warnings have a Pentecostal fire-and-brimstone rage about them. He isn’t just aware of war being the destruction of man, he’s feeling it. Feeling it so we don’t have to. He decries the bombs and rockets and missiles, weaponry in a fusillade that never seems to end. The machines of death come… and they come… and still they come. The tense atmosphere of "And Still They Come" never lets up during its whole length. Meditative, if it weren’t so worrying.
