A selection of interviews and reviews
“Sounds like most of the things music should be but rarely ever is”
– Tony Herrington (The Wire) – review of Ho fat Wallet
“Spaceheads do more than just map out tomorrow’s musical possibilities. Their incendiary noise is joyous to behold in the here and now. And you can dance to it!”
– Mike Wolf (Time Out New York)
“…it’s hard to categorise what Spaceheads sounds like. If you were to think jazz, funk, dance and high energy electronic classical pop, you probably still wouldn’t be anywhere near. What it is, though, is immensely catchy and very danceable, as is proved as the audience fill the floor with their gyrating, rhythmic movements. As unique as the sound is the equipment they use. Richard Harrison’s drum kit is augmented by bent metal strips and anything that can make a noise while Andy Diagram’s trumpet is fed through a computer system that allows for loops and embellishments to flavour the music. They’re controlled by an iPhone attached to a fish slice on the end of his horn, giving the gloriously catchy melodies a new dimension.” – Martin Unsworth live review Sounds Magazine
“Spaceheads, a small and flexible unit, delineate the possibilities of trumpet, percussion and electronica with an endless, inexhaustible imagination”
– Mike Butler – review of Sun Radar EP
“A group who know exactly what they want, how to get it, and how to sweep you up for the ride…my only criticism of this shoe-shined, bow-tied bombshell of an EP: it’s too damn short.”
– Marion Rankine (echoes and dust) review of Sun Radar EP
“Andy Diagram’s trumpet adorned with a fish slice mobile phone attachment and Richard Harrison’s intense and dynamic drum beat created something wholly original, yet at the same time shockingly obvious. Why hasn’t anyone thoughts of mixing jazz, electronic dance and post rock before?! It’s erudite evocative music turned rave. It’s clever and provocative but you just can’t help dancing!” – Anastasia Connor (God is in the TV zine)
“Spaceheads would be unimaginable before techno, yet the diversity of the English duo’s dance tunes,tone poems, marches and soundtrack departures is miles away from the enforced regularity of beats per minute”
– James Hunter (Rolling Stone) – review of Angel Station
Spaceheads have been blasting brainy jazz funk (roll call: Pigbag, Miles Davis, Can, Don Cherry) into interstellar overdrive with bursts of drum corps dazzle and brass pyrotechnics, then mutating the mix with a clutch of electrogizmos
– Sally Jacobs (Spin) – Review of Angel Station
At first glance, Spaceheads look more like an understaffed jazz band than candidates for inclusion in an article about electronic music. But seeing isn’t hearing and the sounds they create are both electronic and electrifying
– Bill Meyer (Magnet) -interview
“Shoot the boss”, a massive motorik beater that makes Coldcut’s “Atomic Moog” sound lumpy
– Mark Luffman (Melody Maker) -review of Round the outside
The Spaceheads have long been flies in the ointment
– Will Montgomery (The Wire) – interview
“Diagram and Harrison again sidestep the gimmick trap their unconventional configuration would seem to guarantee, creating work you’ll be as comfortable getting groovy with as cranking in the headphones”
– Brian Howard (Magnet) review of Low pressure
A tech heads paradise of a route from mouthpiece to speaker through delays and loops and distortions… all the immediacy of analogue interplay with the boundlessness of digital facilitation …..the trumpet is the new guitar
– Lucy Cage Review of Round the outside
“In an age when culture is threatened with drowning beneath oceans of hyperbole….to witness a startlingly unique musical experience was absolutely incredible”
– Cory Brown (San Fransisco Bay Guardian) live review
“Spaceheads is an unconventional duo that evolves at the frontier of avant-garde jazz, noise and rock”
– Review at Londonmilk blogspot
“This is a collection full of invention and delicious painterly atmospheres”
– Mike Barnes (The Wire) – review of 2nd album with Max Eastley
“The music grafts the technologically savvy – loops samples, backward tapes, a hotwired horn – onto the ancient sound machines of drums and trumpet…pure natural organic music making and possibly unique”
– Mike Butler (city life manchester) -reviewing Low Pressure
Its telepathy in action, which isn’t surprising given that these guys have been playing together for what seems like forever
– Richard Boon (Puncture magazine) – Interview
“..blending Bitches Brew- era head jazz with stratospheric dubtronica. Spaceheads isn’t just a name: it’s the one word that accurately encapsulates what these sonic excursions are all about”
– Review Madison Daily page
“A life affirming wealth of material to be enjoyed here”
– Phil England (The Wire) -review of album “Spaceheads”
Spaceheads is a collision of electronics, enhanced bugle and visceral rhythm which opens into a world of playful chaos
– Mike Butler (City Life Manchester) review of album “Spaceheads
a captivating exercise in style and genre cohesion, mixing the duo’s jazz influences with post rock and contemporary dance culture to create a truly brilliant modern soundtrack.
The Milk factory – review of Low Pressure
Every once in a while you encounter a band who just do things differently, completely their own way, to hell with any conventions or trends. Spaceheads are one such band.
– Evil Sponge – review of Low Pressure
I have always had a problem with brass instruments, trumpet being the one I dislike the most. Now, I was wrong, I admit that. I am sorry, and I take it back. The trumpet has an obvious and integrated part in making this album excellent.
– Magnus Nilsson (Moving hands mag) review of Low Pressure
Links to Recent Reviews
Live review God is in the TV zine – mud hutters tea party Aug 2014
