The Galileo 7 is the side project of Allan Crockford, bassist for the Prisoners, Prime Movers, Solarflares, Forefathers, et. al., here playing six-string and singing lead as well as composing the songs. The G7 is more of a psych-pop affair than the freakbeat racket of the aforementioned bands. It's all good, though. No ... it's all great. This will be their third album:

Product Description
With Allan Crockford's history of playing in such Medway garage-rock stalwarts as The Prisoners, Solarflares, Prime Movers, Thee Headcoats (with Billy Childish), JTQ (original line-up) and currently Graham Day & The Forefathers, it should come as no surprise that his own combo The Galileo 7 have more than hint of 60's garage-rock/freakbeat to their output. However, with their third album they continue to move further into the psych-pop territory occupied by such luminaries as Bevis Frond (at his poppiest), The Left Banke, Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Association, The Direct Hits and even Soundtrack of our Lives. Chuck in a bit of the Estuary eccentricism of Martin Newall, Robyn Hitchcock and the hook-laden energy of fellow Medway garage-popsters Len Price 3 and you have a fair idea of where this album is coming from... and going to.

1. Don't Follow Me
2. My Cover Is Blown
3. You're Not Dreaming
4. False Memory Lane
5. Nobody Told You
6. Don't Know What I'm Waiting For
7. I'm Still Here
8. Tide's Rising
9. Fools
10. Don't Want To Know
11. Little By Little

"Mere Self Anomaly" Bonus CD EP (included with vinyl edition only):
1. Blank Spot
2. Over And Over
3. Reynard The Fox

CD
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00KDCHCG0/?tag=imwan-21

Vinyl With Bonus CD EP
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00K6Y6658/?tag=imwan-21

Allan has posted some rough mixes from the forthcoming album to his SoundCloud page -- two superb original songs plus a cover of Julian Cope's "Reynard The Fox":

Really like those rough mixes. I hope this album is released on a cd that's easier to track down than Staring At The Sound was. If I remember right I finally scored a copy through Kool Kat.

The Galileo 7... isn't that the name of one of the original Star Trek episodes?

Yep, clever band name...

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005HED2CM/?tag=imwan-20

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Nice cover! Reynard's one of Cope's overlooked gems.

The G7 had a great song a year or so ago called Mine Mine Mine that was a Coolest Song Of The Week on the Underground Garage.

Good stuff, Reynard?

Bump: Part of the cover art is in the first post now. (Allan hasn't revealed the whole picture yet. )

The new Retrosonic podcast includes a rough mix of another track from False Memory Lane, "Don't Follow Me", at 32:12 ...

Bump: Added the finalised cover image and track listing to the first post. In anticipation of the album's release, Allan has removed the rough demos from SoundCloud which were embedded upthread. There's going to be a standard CD edition, and also a deluxe vinyl edition that comes with a bonus CD EP of tracks that aren't on the CD album. It's not yet known what the initial distribution will be like, but I'm sure it will end up at Amazon in due course like the first two albums did.

Here's the title track:



The album will be available for pre-order directly from http://www.thegalileo7.co.uk beginning May 19th. I'll update the first post when sellers are stocking the physical editions at Amazon.

Another finished track:



Sounds like Allan is stretching out on this album. Not beyond the parameters of his tastes (or mine for that matter), but these new songs are surprising and delighting me. There are psychedelic and pop influences that I haven't heard before -- or haven't heard so prominently, let's say -- in the Prisoners family of bands over the years.

Hello,
I stumbled on your forum by accident (trying to find reviews!). Glad you're liking the new material and thanks for taking an interest. The new album will be out next week, although there's a been a slight delay on the vinyl... the resurgence in popularity of vinyl recently means that all the pressing plants are overworked and some production schedules are slipping. It's only a few days though, and we'll be posting them out from Wednesday 28th onwards.
Pre-orders of vinyl and CD from our website http://www.thegalileo7.co.uk, downloads from iTunes, Amazon etc from Monday.
Cheers!
Allan

Thanks Allan for checking in. If you can score a promo for our Linda this would be a good thing.
She's promoting you guys big time thru her posts as you can see.

Rick A.

Too late, my sister ordered both editions for me from the UK earlier in the week. How about free passes for Rick and me if you ever play Tampa?

Seriously, Allan, thanks for visiting IMWAN and continued good fortune with the G7 and the Forefathers.

Bump: Both the CD and vinyl editions are now available via Amazon UK, directly from Allan's third party seller storefront. Links added to the first post, along with the track listing for the bonus CD EP.

'If you ever play Tampa'...? If that happens, you'll definitely get a pass...
Now all we need is someone to organise a few gigs in the USA. Piece of cake....