They’re nobody’s buzz bands anymore. But since 1993, MAGNET has discovered and documented more great music than memory will allow. The groups may have broken up or the albums may be out of print, but this time, history is written by the losers. Here are some of the finest albums that time forgot but we remembered in issue #75, plus all-new additions to our list of Lost Classics.
:: QUICKSPACE
Precious Falling // Hidden Agenda/Parasol, 1998
Quickspace was the second cult-classic band formed by London singer/guitarist Tom Cullinan; the first, Th Faith Healers, has gotten more press lately due to a 2006 U.S. reunion tour. But that’s all relative obscurity; the members of Quickspace were mere barbarians at Stereolab’s gate, hoping to crash that band’s posh assemblage of krautrock-fueled grooves. Precious Falling did cop some circular rhythms and add layers of guitar/keyboard fuzz, but in such a way that sounded ramshackle and under-rehearsed. Where Stereolab made music for cocktail parties and designer drugs, Quickspace’s Cullinan and singer Nina Pascale were loaded for mushrooms and cheap wine.
Catching Up: Matador issued the aptly titled The Death Of Quickspace in 2000. The band has released two seven-inch singles since, the last four years ago.
“Death + Annie”:
