The space agency’s release of noise from 200m light years away has been compared to everything from Pink Floyd to Björk. Here’s what a professional reviewer made of it
s has become the wont of major artists, the debut from the Black Hole dropped so suddenly on Sunday that it might as well have landed from outer space. Which, er, in fact it did.
, 200m light years away, sounds, on first hearing, like a lot of submerged wailing – or indeed whales – but like many a classic, takes time to reveal its true complexity and profundity.
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