Spacemen 3

We shared early labels.

Richard Formby, he went on to be in Spaceman 3-related things.

He was in the band called Religious Overdose.

That whole thing was really exciting.

this? Evie Sands turned up on a compilation a few years ago called Space Lines, which was subtitled Songs the Spacemen Got Into.

which, if you listen to it, it really doesn't sound like something which would have influenced the Spacemen 3.

I have a feeling that they probably tried to get hold of the Troggs cover that she did of Any Way That You Want, because it sounds very similar to the spiritualised single version, which came later.

But she's got a wonderful voice, you know, scatting, wailing, swooping all over the place.

[laughs] The five members originally met while attending Bard College in the early 1990s.

Discovering a shared love of bands such as The Fall, Can, Spacemen 3, and The Birthday Party, they formed a group in 1993.

So that's where Nick Zinner's vibe was coming.

And they were like, "We're gonna go to Williamsburg, Brooklyn and make it, babe." This is back when people did not move to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, just wanna point out.

I would love if you would play our song, Cosmic Clouds 2, from our self-titled debut album released on Slouch Records last September, vinyl available on Bandcamp.

Sonic Blossoms are a heavy psychedelic space rock group from Los Angeles, California, influenced by bands such as the Stooges, Spaceman 3, and Primitive 60 Psychedelic Rock.

Am I going to love this? The group uses extreme fuzz, wah-wah guitar, trance-like rhythms, and echoing theremin to project their music into outer dimensions.

There's a theremin?

That is Pete Kember and Noah Lennox.

They're from the bands Spacemen 3 and Animal Collective, and they've also recorded two collaborative albums together under the name Panda Bear and Sonic Boom.

The second of those albums, A Question of When, is out now on vinyl, CD, cassette, or digital download.

You cannot, however, stream it, which we get into later.

Um, and since I was talking to P and just a huge fan of his, and, uh, we were talking about maybe doing something together, I thought why not ask him if he would re- mix the stuff, and lucky for me, he was down.

Yeah, you guys have similar aesthetics, like lots of kind of loops, drones, that kind of thing.

Were you a Spacemen 3 fan when you were younger?

I was.

So yeah, basically started off kind of a bit more kind of Gary's.

He talks about the interview about like heavily influenced by the Stooges, Spacemen 3, that kind of thing.

Played with Spacemen 3 very early on, one of their early gigs.

Again, he mentions it in the interview.

And they were seeing more of an acid rock band rather than a shoegaze band because shoegaze wasn't love it when you do that.