Amoeba Music

By Scott Feemster

Spacemen 3 can rightfully be called one of the first post-modern psychedelic bands, in that they welded all the fuzz, distortion and dynamics of the first-wave psychedelic bands of the 1960's with a post-punk minimalism informed by such bands as The Velvet Underground, Suicide, Neu, and the Silver Apples. They also later introduced elements of blues and gospel into their sound. Though the band only released four proper studio albums, they have become one of the most influential psychedelic bands from the second wave of psychedelia that hit from the early 1980's into the early 1990's, and wielded a huge influence on the emerging genre often called 'shoegazing'.

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Genre:

Rock, Progressive, Space Rock, Alternative/Indie, Post Psychedelic

City Of Origin:

Rugby, Warwickshire, England

Formed Date:

1982