| Suburban Rock 'N' Roll | ||||
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| Studio album by Space | ||||
| Released | March 8, 2004 | |||
| Recorded | 2002-2003 | |||
| Genre | Britpop | |||
| Length | 40:15 | |||
| Label | RandM/Pinnacle | |||
| Producer | Stephen Lironi | |||
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Suburban Rock 'N' Roll is the third (fourth if you count the unreleased Love You More than Football) and, so far, final studio album by Space, released on March 8, 2004. It is their first proper album release since 1998's Tin Planet. The tracks "Zombies", "Suburban Rock 'N' Roll" and "20 Million Miles from Earth" were released as singles, all of them failing to reach top 40 (as well as the top 75).
For this album Space ditched the polished, commercial-friendly sound that inhabited Tin Planet and Love You More than Football and returned to the darker style of their debut Spiders. Tommy Scott's lyrical themes also changed, as they aim to move away from the character-driven lyrics of old and are a lot more impressionist, with songs dealing with death, crime and surveillance amongst other serious and controversial themes. The band also reunited with Spiders' producer Stephen Lironi, who is credited as songwriter of a few tracks, though Scott has insisted he wrote all the material himself.
Suburban Rock 'N' Roll is the first Space album with no techno/electronic instrumentals from Franny Griffiths, as the band wanted the album to be more song-orientated.
The album was not a great success, as public interest had waned in the band almost six years previously, and promotion for the record was almost non-existent. Despite the failure of both album and singles, the album remains a favourite amongst fans, with even former band member Jamie Murphy dubbing it the "best Space album".[2]
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