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Space rock

<p><b>Space rock</b> is a <a href="/en/Music_genre" title="Music genre" class="wl">music genre</a> characterized by loose and lengthy song structures centered on instrumental <a href="/en/Texture_(music)" title="Texture (music)" class="wl">textures</a> that typically produce a hypnotic, otherworldly sound.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-AllMusic_1-0"><a href="#cite_note-AllMusic-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span> It may feature <a href="/en/Distortion_(music)" title="Distortion (music)" class="wl">distorted</a> and <a href="/en/Reverberation" title="Reverberation" class="wl">reverberation</a>-laden guitars, minimal drumming, languid vocals, <a href="/en/Synthesizer" title="Synthesizer" class="wl">synthesizers</a> and lyrical themes of <a href="/en/Outer_space" title="Outer space" class="wl">outer space</a> and <a href="/en/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction" class="wl">science fiction</a>.</p>

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<ul><li><a href="/en/Alternative_rock" title="Alternative rock" class="wl">Alternative rock</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Ambient_music" title="Ambient music" class="wl">ambient music</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Experimental_rock" title="Experimental rock" class="wl">experimental rock</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Indie_rock" title="Indie rock" class="wl">indie rock</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Krautrock" title="Krautrock" class="wl">krautrock</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Minimal_music" title="Minimal music" class="wl">minimal music</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Noise_pop" title="Noise pop" class="wl">noise pop</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Shoegazing" title="Shoegazing" class="mw-redirect wl">shoegazing</a></li></ul>
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<p>The genre emerged in late 1960s <a href="/en/Psychedelia" title="Psychedelia" class="wl">psychedelia</a> and <a href="/en/Progressive_rock" title="Progressive rock" class="wl">progressive rock</a> bands such as <a href="/en/Pink_Floyd" title="Pink Floyd" class="wl">Pink Floyd</a>, <a href="/en/Hawkwind" title="Hawkwind" class="wl">Hawkwind</a>,<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-AllMusic_1-1"><a href="#cite_note-AllMusic-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span> and <a href="/en/Gong_(band)" title="Gong (band)" class="wl">Gong</a><span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="#cite_note-2" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[2]</span></a></span> who explored a "cosmic" sound. Similar sounds were pursued in the early 1970s West German <i><a href="/en/Kosmische_Musik" title="Kosmische Musik" class="mw-redirect wl">kosmische Musik</a></i> ("cosmic music") scene. Later, the style was taken up in the mid-1980s by <a href="/en/Spacemen_3" title="Spacemen 3" class="wl">Spacemen 3</a>, whose "<a href="/en/Drone_(music)" title="Drone (music)" class="wl">drone</a>-heavy" sound was avowedly inspired by and intended to accommodate drug use. By the 1990s, space rock developed into <a href="/en/Shoegazing" title="Shoegazing" class="mw-redirect wl">shoegazing</a>, <a href="/en/Stoner_rock" title="Stoner rock" class="wl">stoner rock</a> and <a href="/en/Post-rock" title="Post-rock" class="wl">post-rock</a><span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-AllMusic_1-2"><a href="#cite_note-AllMusic-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span> with bands such as <a href="/en/The_Verve" title="The Verve" class="wl">the Verve</a>, <a href="/en/Flying_Saucer_Attack" title="Flying Saucer Attack" class="wl">Flying Saucer Attack</a>, and <a href="/en/Orange_Goblin" title="Orange Goblin" class="wl">Orange Goblin</a>.</p>



Space rock is a music genre characterized by loose and lengthy song structures centered on instrumental textures that typically produce a hypnotic, otherworldly sound. It may feature distorted and reverberation-laden guitars, minimal drumming, languid vocals, synthesizers and lyrical themes of outer space and science fiction. The genre emerged in late 1960s psychedelia and progressive rock bands such as Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, with bands such as the Verve, Flying Saucer Attack, and Orange Goblin. 