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Levitation

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Levitation: Need For Not

Review by David Cavanagh, Select, June 1992

SOME DEBUT ALBUMS, of course, are more eagerly awaited than others. It would be hard to Imagine anyone chewing their nails to the quick waiting ...

Spiritualized, Levitation: Hackney Empire, London

Live Review by David Toop, The Times, 6 April 1993

Drifting together ...

Spiritualized, Levitation: Hackney Empire, London

Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 17 April 1993

A BALD man in a silver suit is pumping plumes of silver smoke from the balcony in between playing mood-altering ambient tape-loops. Below him, the ...

Cardiacs tribute album to raise money for paralysed singer Tim Smith

Report and Interview by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 3 February 2011

Cardiacs singer Tim Smith suffered a heart attack and a paralysing stroke two years ago, and musicians are now flocking to cover his strange, unique ...

"Don't Question Everything": Levitation's Need For Not Revisited

Retrospective by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 15 May 2012

"They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more." Wyndham Wallace celebrates a forgotten classic 20 years ...

Whirled Around: The Rise & Fall Of Levitation

Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 23 May 2012

20 years ago, on the eve of their debut album's release, Levitation looked like they'd explode. Instead, a year later, they imploded. Wyndham Wallace invites ...

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