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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. Spiritualizedâs debut album, released a short time after the band had floated free from Spacemen 3, is a record both in thrall to rockânâroll tradition and ambivalent about rockâs foundations in heaviness and grit. While rockânâroll is a corporeal movement, the sound of bodies moving in time, Lazer Guided Melodiesâwhich is being reissued on 180-gram vinylâfeels almost weightless, an astral ...
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’), sufferin...