Sonic Boom Spectrum Spacemen 3 Rotating Cover EX
$
51
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From Trouser Press: "From the general tone of his post-Spacemen 3 output, it's clear that English guitarist, keyboardist and singer Pete "Sonic Boom" Kember was the reason that band spent so much of its performance career sitting down. Kember's explorations of sonic possibilities have always been marked by nuances of shade and pitch rather than immediately recognizable "songs." Yes, he's got a certain infatuation with the spangle-pop of late '60s icons like Brian Wilson, but as time has passed, Kember has increasingly disabused himself of his more corporeal leanings, choosing instead to ascend into the ether and send down missives from above. The Sonic Boom solo album Spectrum is little more than a loosely connected cluster of shimmers, spangles and sparkles, reminiscent of nothing so much as Suicide (whose "Rock 'n' Roll Is Killing My Life" he covers here) on anti-depressant medication. The one-chord guitar vamps don't stray far from the more pastoral side of the Spacemen tracks, but Kember's repudiation of rock as a form is hardly ambiguous."
The gatefold cover features two revolving op-art styled plastic wheels to zone out with, I suppose. Great packaging.
EX/EX condition, cover/vinyl. Check my other auctions, I have numerous similar items this week.
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