Once used as a
tag to describe 1970s-era acts like
Hawkwind, in more recent years the term "space rock" has come to embody a new generation of heady,
hypnotic bands with aspirations of cosmic
transcendence. Arguably the first and most prominent of the new space rock groups was
Britain's
Spacemen 3, whose famous "
Taking drugs to make music to take drugs to" credo subsequently influenced most, if not all, of the like-minded bands in their wake; indeed, the music of the
genre is typically
narcotic, defined by washes of heavily reverbed
guitar, minimalist
drumming, and gentle, languid
vocals.
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