Appropriately preceded by the mind-melting crunch of the "Revolution" single, Playing with Fire proved to be the end of Spacemen 3 as a functioning band, but in truly spectacular fashion. Exploring both the depths of serene, agog beauty and sheer tape-shredding chaos, Playing with Fire pushed the extremes of The Perfect Prescription to an even further edge. It's little surprise that Pierce and Sonic couldn't find themselves properly working together after it, but even less that hordes ...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Exploring both the depths of serene, agog beauty and sheer tape-shredding chaos, this reissue of Spacemen 3's Playing with Fire proves to be the equal (or better) of psychedelia's '60s/'70s forebears. Sonic Boom (aka Pete Kember) himself is quoted in one reissue's liner notes as feeling the album "was the refining point of a lot of my theories on minimalism being maximalism" - as apt a description as any. One of his songs, "How Does It Feel?", sums it up by using a series of notes echoing off...   [ read more ]

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Drawing together some earlier material and a slew of new songs, Spacemen 3 tied everything together on the brilliant Perfect Prescription, the clear point of departure from tribute to psych inspirations and finding its own unique voice. Planned as a concept album, Perfect Prescription works where so many other similar efforts failed due to the strength of the individual songs, as well as the smart focus of the concept in question -- a vision of a drug trip from inception to its blasted conclusi...   [ read more ]

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