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• Appropriately preceded by the mind-melting crunch of the “Revolution” single, Playing with Fire proved to be the end of Spacemen 3 as a functioning band, but in truly spectacular fashion.

  Exploring both the depths of serene, agog beauty and sheer tape-shredding chaos, Playing with Fire pushed the extremes of The Perfect Prescription to an even further edge. It’s little surprise that Pierce and Sonic couldn’t find themselves properly working together after it, but even less that hordes of bands to follow would rank Playing with Fire as the equal (or better) of psychedelia’s ’60s/’70s forebears. Sonic himself is quoted in one reissue’s liner notes as feeling the album “was the refining point of a lot of my theories on minimalism being maximalism” — as apt a description as any. One of his songs, “How Does It Feel?,” sums it u