Please Don’t Make Me Come Back From the Moon – E. G. Phillips (reviewed by Dave Franklin)

It is quite timely to find this latest release from E.G. Phillips drop just as the Artemis II moon flights are hitting the headlines. And if the 1969 moon landings had Bowie’s “Space Oddity” to soundtrack the feeling of distance and isolation, “Please Don’t Make Me Come Back From the Moon” perhaps speaks as much of the planet left behind as to the place that he is broadcasting from.

Inspired, in part, by the second side of In a Silent Way (which coincidentally came out the same month as both the moon landings and the Bowie song), the idea of “Miles Davis in space” is a handy starting point for the song. Languid trumpets breeze through, understated keys dance around, and the bass and beat do little more than gently tether the song to stop it from drifting away. And they say there is no atmosphere up there!

And amongst Phillips’ usual fairy-tale lyrics of moon-jumping bovines and cheese-eating reverie is the idea that many of us would rather spend our days so far away from the hassle and hustle of the world today, in a place of silence and space…literally.

But come back he must, not least because after this final single in the current run, there is the small business of an album, Signals in the Dark, to be released. But mainly because the world would be a much less interesting place if he left us to set up home elsewhere in the solar system.

Another song that shows that there is no one remotely like E.G. Phillips.

Cosmic!

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