“In the 1980s, Jason Pierce distilled Dylan's methadone strumming, Roky Erickson's psychedelic circular breathing and LaMonte Young's numbing minimalism, and sold the delirious result to us as Spacemen 3. In the 1990s, he continued his tasteful pilfering as the figurehead of Spiritualized-- on *Pure Phase*, he defined blissed-out noise-pop; on *Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space*, he li”