Item: The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Spacegirl and Other Favorites
Rating: 3
Author: ziltoid

THE REVIEW

1993: only 500 copies of a record/collection that seems to have tried to materialize the sound of Spacemen 3, now adrift in an intangible musical conception that dissolved them not long ago. But the vapor tension remains high. It takes little to penetrate that invisible thickness dividing sound and listener. It's an immersion, then realizing you find yourself chasing a soap bubble in the midst of those feedbacks that continuously hide the truth.

What becomes evident is the intersection between Sonic Youth and an undefined shoegaze, with distinct hints of space rock in this mixture of vague indie-pop, all under the banner of the most expansive neo-psychedelia. These are songs that seem to have been heard millennia ago, as in a dream. Empty rooms, two fingers of dust and an encyclopedic ensemble of sleepless sounds, with intangible textures and fragile melodies: difficult to understand and live simultaneously.

2003: a reissue that adds tracks from old demos. What might seem a futile addition of zeros instead stretches the elastic towards a monumental sonic dispersion and desolation.

All action and no theory.

A work with no form, but infinite substance. A debut made of narcoleptic hallucinations, dispersive in its subtle tangibility that, while inventing nothing, shows a very personal approach in the vortex of the early '90s psychedelic revival. In admitting comparisons, what may remain with a Perfect Prescription is only a relationship of mimicry.

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The Brian Jonestown Massacre’s debut album Spacegirl and Other Favorites channels early '90s neo-psychedelia with a dense mix of shoegaze, space rock, and indie pop. Originally released in 1993 with limited copies, the 2003 reissue features additional demo tracks that expand the album’s atmospheric scope. The music evokes a dreamlike immersion with fragile melodies and intangible textures, positioning the band within the psychedelic revival movement yet maintaining their distinctive approach.

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01 Crushed (05:53)

I'm tired of living alone
I've just discovered alone
I feel uncovered with you
I feel right here

I'm kinda silly I know
I'm not your lover although
I shouldn't bother I fall for the deep clear

eyes blue
And you know
I'm in line with you

I'm tired of giving enough
I've learned from living it rough
I think I know when i must make myself clear

I'm tired of living alone
I've just discovered alone
When I'm uncovered with you
I feel right here

Cant you see
I can fly but I'm not free

care for you
All alone in the clear blue clear

And you see
I can fly but I'm not free

Its kinda of silly I know
I'm not your lover allthough
I should'nt bother I fall for the deep clear

I can fly in the clear blue
Care free
Dry my eyes in a cool breeze
And you see

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I'm alone when I lie still
And care free
I can fly but I'm not free here
I can fly but I'm not free clear
I can fly but I'll fall clear
I can fly through the clear blue

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02 That Girl Suicide (03:36)

i can't explain all the things that i'm feeling
and when i look i don't know what i'm seeing
she say's relax
if i want you
we'll go slow
i close my eyes and
it all goes away though

what she wants is she wants me to no-no
it happens fast but the feeling is slow-mo
i know what
she wants
but she's never
going to get it
make up your mind or
you better forget it.

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