Here is Julian Cope's Review of Ritual Landscape. Awake from your dreams and see what you’ve done For the Gnostic rock’n’roller, ie: those of us whose long-term obsessions with electric rock music are primarily concerned with unleashing the wild spirit within us not by running to epiphany via the safety of some long-established religious system (Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, etc.), nor by following some even dodgier new age cult (Wicca, Kabbalah, etc), but instead by activating the Godlike Higher Self within us by dancing, sweating, moshing, drugging, head-banging our Moronic Lower Self into righteous oblivion, I would suggest that The Badgeman’s album RITUAL LANDSCAPE is of major use to us on two important counts: firstly, that repeated listening to the music contained within these grooves will take you precisely where you need to go (ie: Above and Below simultaneously); and secondly as a splendid symbol of how rock’n’rollers can, when they put their collective psyches together, push each other into achieving at least 20 times more than they had achieved previously. For not only was this remarkable RITUAL LANDSCAPE album an incredibly cohesive and spectacularly rigorous artistic statement, but – even more remarkably – it was also brought forth from the most unexpected of quarters, delivered in 1992CE by the same four young men whose releases of the previous two years (on album, 7” and 12”EP) had been barely worthy of comment; neither good nor bad, but certainly never prev