Spaceman (formerly SpaceManAntics) are a crew from Fremantle making lo-fi psych pop with a distinct krautrock twist, and their new album Palm Haus will be out this Friday – available on a sparkly cassette, no less.
Album opener ‘The Stars Are Not Eyes’ tells you everything you’ll need to know, its steady, insistent drive augmented regularly by playful basslines and tumbling drum fills as it builds and builds. Lead single Dead Baum sways atop romantic Bossa Nova beats, its cheer belying the dark lyrics. The album is regularly awash with cosmic synths, while vocal lines warble beneath layers of effects, all sounding suitably interplanetary for a space-themed outfit. It’s these wrinkles that helps the band stand out from their psych contemporaries, and it’s all carried off with an entertaining flourish.
Spaceman are launching themselves back into the live arena with maximum thrust, starting with a hometown show in Fremantle before playing a run of seven shows across eight days in Melbourne and Sydney, and finally capping the tour off with a homecoming show in Perth (dates below).
Tour Dates:
June 24th–Mojos Bar Fremantle
July 1 –Yah Yah’s 2am Show (Melbourne)
July 2 –Evelyn Hotel (Melbourne)
July 4 –The Old Bar (Melbourne)
July 5 –The Howler (Melbourne)
July 6 –Beach Rd Hotel (Sydney)
July 7–Freda’s Bar (Sydney)
July 8 –Oxford Art Bar (Sydney)
July 16 –The Bird (Perth)
