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Spin Cycle reviews Norway’s Sleepyard, Brian Bordello’s solo album, supergroups called Fishheads and The Hobbit House Collective, plus others

Open share drawer On their debut, Spiritualized seemed to emerge from the ether perfectly realized, creating rock music that was serene, spaced-out, and untroubled. Spiritualized’s debut album, released a short time after the band had floated free from Spacemen 3, is a record both in thrall to rock’n’roll tradition and ambivalent about rock’s foundations in heaviness and grit. While rock’n’roll is a corporeal movement, the sound of bodies moving in time, Lazer Gui...

Julian Marszalek , February 8th, 2021 08:37 Though they’d split by the time of its release, Recurring wasn’t so much a farewell from Spacemen 3 as a calling card for Pete Kember’s Spectrum and Jason Pierce’s Spiritualized. Julian Marszalek gets caught in the middle 30 years on There’s a romanticism surrounding music that’s arguably unmatched by any other art form. Be it triumph over adversity (that air punching moment when the long shadow of a monochrome past is jettisoned for a bri...