of two Robot World tracks and two that would appear on the forthcoming Vortura. Vortura would be followed a year later by Wammo. In 1999 the band performed in Toronto as part of the Neon Palm Festival. After this, their U.S. releases came out on NYC-based label Turnbuckle Records, which folded circa 2002. In 2004, Matador Records deleted all Bailter Space releases from their catalog. The band's releases are now out of print, except for in New Zealand / Australia. A career-spanning retrospective compilation, Bailterspace was issued in 2004. In August 2008, Bailter Space emerged from a 4-year hiatus to perform live at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City. They were joined by new recruit Ian Ljungquist filling in on the bass. A new album entitled Strobosphere was released in New Zealand on 13 August 2012 and in the United States on 21 August 2012. Musical style The band have often been compared to Sonic Youth, and they were once described as "The Sonic Youth of the Southern Hemisphere", with Trouser Press describing their early sound as "hard, droning, unforgiving guitar music with occasional lapses into verse/chorus regularity". By Tanker their sound had become more conventional. With their relocation to New York, their sound also shifted, with the band's next releases described as "an unholy collision between The Beatles harmonies and The Velvet Underground dissonance", with Parker stating at the time that the band were getting into "the harmonic value of distortion; we started to be very particular about where we set the instruments up and the angles the sounds were bouncing at. From these harmonic experiments I became more interested in the actual melodic content of the music". Pitchfork Media described them in 1999 as "a huge mess of sound that's simultaneously beautiful, jagged, atonal, and supremely melodic", while another review in the same year described their sound as "one part Superchunk, one part Pixies, and one part Dinosaur Jr." Discography As 'The Gordons' Studio albums The Gordons (1981, Gordons) Volume 2 (1984, Gordons) EP Future Shock (1980, Gordons) Compilations The Gordons (1988, Flying Nun) Studio albums EPs Singles Compilation References External links Biography page at Flying Nun AudioCulture profile Information on The Gordons Noise rock groups Shoegazing musical groups Flying Nun Records artists Matador Records artists Musical groups established in 1986 Musical groups disestablished in 2004 Musical groups reestablished in 2008 Musical groups disestablished in 2008 Musical