Cosmic minimalism
Chris Parkin leaves the hypno-rock orbit of Spacemen 3 in search of undersea civilisations, narco-kosmische paradises and outlying planets with rarefied, droning atmospheres…
Chris Parkin
Genke Hopping
As Jason Pierce returns with another sweetly elegiac and gospel-tinged album of narcotic balladry as Spiritualized, it’s perhaps worth remembering how he sounded in another lifetime, when he was better known as J. Spaceman – orchestrator of psychedelic noise, first with Spacemen 3 in the 80s and 90s, and then on his earliest Spiritualized albums.