Spacemen 3/Wooden Shjips
Big City/I Believe It

A Norman Records recommendation (6th November 2009)

This record left our Dave feeling happy.

Spacemen 3 have just landed...in a split 7" with Wooden Shjips! It has one of the best sleeves i've seen for ages and the song's not bad either, it's a meandering sort of affair with an 80s shoegazer feel and otherworldly vocals, it really grows on you, much like an unwanted fungal infection...but waaay more pleasant. It should appeal to stoners everywhere, I feel drugged up just listening to it! As for the Wooden Ships song, it shares the same psychedelic tendencies as the Spacemen 3 side.. kinda slow paced, chiming guitars, low vocal mix...in fact I almost thought this was a cover of a Spacemen 3 song! It left me feeling as the flip side did.....monged out, with red beady eyes and a desire to go to the 24 hour garage to buy some brand of popular crisp....well done The Great Pop Supplement...you've bonged me out.....

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What their label says...

For it's 50th release the great pop supplement offers up this incredible pairing of like minded spirits, for a total one off split 45. 2 unreleased nuggets from legendary psych rockers from both sides of the pond. The Spacemen tune is a beautiful demo to their last ever single, the mighty "big city". stripped of it's lyrical nod to the electric prunes, but still very much displaying the kraftwerk influence of the original, the softer spoken lyrical passages offer up an almost confessional electro blues variant, unique to this early take. After 2 studio LPs, Wooden Shjips are often bracketed with the Spacemen, with their blissed out Velvets / Doors / Kraut sound- so it's perhaps of no surprise that they should take on a Spacemen gem for their own reworking. "I Believe It" from the classic "Playing with Fire" album gets the nod for a radical overhaul- where the original's predominantly keyboard lead is given the Shjips' guitar fuzz and 2 note organ treatment. a killer take on an old favourite, debuted recently on the road and offered up here as their first outright UK release. Packaging as ever with the GPS is of paramount importance, cover art is provided by natty brooker (the original spacemen percussionist) and is from original work put together during his time within the band's first line-up. A pretty much essential and incredible 45, destined not to hang around long....

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