Spacemen 3
Big City

THE REVIEW

It's 1990 and Spacemen 3 are practically no longer in existence, although not officially.

Their final single "Big City" is released, taken from Recurring. The parents Sonic Boom and J. Spaceman have divorced and are acting separately, sometimes in secret.

The constant disputes over songwriting led to a total division of the tracks on the album and, consequently, also in the singles.

The limited edition 7" included two tracks: "Big City (Everybody I Know Can Be Found Here)" (written by Kember) and "Drive" (written by Pierce). The two tracks serve as a preview of the sounds that the two will experiment with once their paths are forever parted.

Kember creates a song of over 10 minutes of pure minimalist psychedelia, which made Spacemen 3 known in that mid-80's era, steeped in so much Acid House, which during those years would deeply influence the Madchester scene, among Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, and Flowered Up.

Pierce, always in that pleasantly repetitive mood, manages to channel the future sound of his Spiritualized into his track, infusing it with "spiritual" murmurs and making it "dreamy & mellow."

No doubt about it: even in all the possible acrimony, they have never contradicted themselves.