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 bright new future such as New Order’s butterfly-like transformation with ‘Blue Monday’), suffering for one’s art in the face of almost overwhelming odds (how often has the drama of crippling addiction been played out?) or even tragedy as farce (the creation of Happy Mondays’