It's had some good press for it, including airplay on Six music.
If you joined the dots of Time.Space.Repeat.'s music you'd perhaps understand why they aren't bigger than they are, but that wouldn't make it any more just. The London shoegazers first full length album 'Early Transmissions' had its flaws certainly, but that merely emphasised it's charm- a passionate, heart on sleeve skeleton's out the closet personal collection of songs that managed to sound absolutely massive to boot.
http://www.audioscribbler.co.uk/reviews/5561
Many have dubbed rising mob Time.Space.Repeat as the dawning of a new age in post-apocalyptic, shoegaze-tinged post-rock. Echoing songs of desolation and struggling, while at times exuding a suffocated search for hope in the blackening void that is our fair world. Providing the soundtrack for the ever-present end of days that seems to hang heavily like a harvest moon, unceremoniously in the sky.
And for the most part, their message shines through on their second outing 'Lost Transmissions' like a shining beacon of light amongst the eternally black skies that shroud our fair nation. From the swelling ambience of '2 Minute Requiem' through to the rising emotive power of 'Youth Of America (Rise Up Against Your Insect Overlords And Kill! Kill! Kill!)', we're given some brilliantly layered slabs of Radiohead-esque doom rock.
If that weren't enough for you, then the quiet warmth of 'Under The Waves', which boasts near endless numbers of layered guitars and keys atop each other, systematically engulfing the listener in a warm and welcoming blanket of noise and enchantment that lulls, confounds and ultimately reassures the listener of its intent.
Fact is, whether the world will actually come to an end on December 21st 2012 is yet to be seen, but if that's the case, then odds are you'll find TSR welcoming in the apocalypse by cranking out their homage to the end of all mankind, with all the gusto and power that one would expect from such visionaries. Failing that of course, this is still some stunning music from some of London's finest that is bound to both evoke thought and mystify the soul.
http://www.new-noise.net/album-reviews/timespacerepeat/lost-transmissions/timespacerepeat---lost-transmissions_5279.html
Time.Space.Repeat release 2nd album
http://www.the-fly.co.uk/?content=27&articleid=3531&tofriend=1
They maintain the Bush-era paranoid/doomed vibe with song titles like "The Fear", "Who Will Save Us Now" and "Disaster Song" - it's a good thematic starting point, and it could have made for some great music, but the band attacks it with the same post-rock song structures that Mogwai was serving up over a decade ago http://www.losingtoday.com/reviews.php?review_id=4886
If this is to be their last transmission then don't let it pass you by as it all comes tumbling down – a recommended treasure from underground London. http://www.organart.demon.co.uk/neworgan282.htm
but it's hard to deny the simplistic beauty of the mellow vocals and classical guitar of 'I.S.O.P.O.D.' or the uplifting layers that lead 'No Laces' to its gorgeous crescendo finale. You will be reminded of the slower, quieter moments of Radiohead - clear on tracks such as 'The Fear' - and whether the band like it or not, that comparison is to no detriment to T.S.R. as that particular track builds more and more to end in truly epic, soaring style.
http://www.rockmidgets.com/releases.php?p=1&page=3&id=3115
But despite tapering the beatific majesty of these tracks with the ungodly racket of 'Youth Of America' and 'End Of The World', we know that Time.Space.Repeat's mothers brought them up right as they are kind-heartedly offering up all of the album's proceeds to Shelter. So, if nothing else, buy it for that - as well as 'Under The Waves' of course; which sounds as brilliantly emotive as a tearful Ian McCulloch crouched in a council stairwell eating a sugar sandwich and waiting for it all to end. In these days of drag, there are few better bands to soundtrack the winter months.
http://beardedmagazine.co.uk/wp/?p=484
Time.Space.Repeat. released 'The Fear' and 'Under the Waves' as a free double a side download single on the 30th of March 2008 backed by their new video.
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London shoegazers Time.Space.Repeat. are giving away two free downloads from their second album 'Lost Transmissions.' Long time Time.Space.Repeat. live favourite 'The Fear' is an astonishing slice of post rock that trembles on the edge of the end of the world and screams 'I’m not scared' into its ether, compared to the melancholic moments of Radiohead, the rushing positivity through tragedy of Spiritualized, it's the perfect anthem for these times of economic uncertainty. The haunting vocals and tremulous lapping spectral guitars of 'Under The Waves' aches with a longing of lovers lost, it brings to mind the finest work of 'I Like Trains' or the broken melodies of 'Low'.
Both tracks are taken from their second album Lost Transmissions released to generally positive vibes late in 2008. Available as a physical CD from http://www.samu.co.uk it's made up of eleven tracks; it's fifty minutes in length and contains the exclusive video for the track 'Disaster Song'. Costing only five pounds, around four pounds from each sale is donated to Shelter.
http://www.music-news.com/ShowNews.asp?H=Time.Space.Repeat.-release-free-double-A-side&nItemID=25242
http://www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk/MagSitePages/Article.aspx?id=4989
‘The Fear’ then sinisterly slithers in and bases its defiance around the simple repetition of the lyric “I’m not scared”; it’s a track of haunting bleakness as the tortured narrator accepts his own mortality, expecting to “see it all turn to dust, I know I won’t be wrong”.
http://www.audioscribbler.co.uk/reviews/5561
With a press release that refers to the band in question as "an ever-shifting gestalt entity of spirits contained within the glass jar of London", and a name that conjures up bunsen burners, laboratories and sixth form science you can guess that Time.Space.Repeat aren't another run of the mill band of tousle haired faux indie charlatans so beloved of the mainstream media.
With a sound that could be pithily tagged as The Dark Side of OK Computer, Time.Space.Repeat skirt dangerously close to that most maligned of music forms prog rock without descending into the over indulgent noodling that gave the genre such a bad name.
The band are giving away two free downloads, 'Under The Waves' and 'The Fear' from their second album 'Lost Transmissions'. The spine chilling vocals and spectral guitars of 'Under The Waves' will test the emotional resolve of even the most resolute of men while live favourite 'The Fear' is a breathtaking helping of melancholic post rock that trembles on the edge of Radiohead's world before hurtling head first into the comforting arms of Spiritualized.
http://besttuna.blogspot.com/2009/03/did-you-miss-me-yeah-while-i-was-away.html
The Fear’ packs more psychodramatic undercurrents than four hours of Chekhov and ‘Turn Towards The Sun’ could force tears from a statue.
http://beardedmagazine.co.uk/wp/?p=484
http://www.thesilentballet.com/dnn/Reviews/2009/MostViewed/tabid/157/ctl/Details/mid/628/ItemID/2064/Default.aspx
The second release from Time.Space.Repeat, ‘Lost Transmissions’, is one of the most elaborate, challenging and downright soul engulfing records that has been released in a long time.
Hailing from London, this band of not so merry musicians has delivered an album of dynamic, forceful Shoegaze that turns the volume up to 11. There is not one bad moment on this album. When you consider how long it didn’t take to make and how much it didn’t cost, you’re left wondering how they managed to create something so potent and electrifying whilst a certain Mr G’n’R gave us a damp squib.
If you need Radiohead, Sigur Ros and Spiritualized in your life, then make room for Time.Space.Repeat. While they have taken from each of these bands, songs such as the celestial ‘The Fear’ and the brooding, poignant ‘Youth Of America’ drown out all before them with the sheer scale of the beauty released by the musicians and their instruments.
With ‘Lost Transmissions’, Time.Space.Repeat have managed to create a uniquely powerful collection of songs that will have you transfixed in amazement for the duration and leave you with the sort of feeling you get when you’ve experienced something truly profound. (Ollie Cornish, Balcony.tv)
http://www.balconytv.co.uk/?cat=3
Time.Space.Repeat will take over the world!- Tom Robinson Six Music
http://www.roomthirteen.com/cd_reviews/9626/TimeSpaceRepeat__Lost_Transmissions.html
London shoegazers Time.Space.Repeat. are giving away two free downloads from their second album 'Lost Transmissions.' Long time Time.Space.Repeat. live favourite 'The Fear' is an astonishing slice of post rock that trembles on the edge of the end of the world and screams 'I�m not scared' into its ether, compared to the melancholic moments of Radiohead, the rushing positivity through tragedy of Spiritualized, it's the perfect anthem for these times of economic uncertainty. The haunting vocals and tremulous lapping spectral guitars of 'Under The Waves' aches with a longing of lovers lost, it brings to mind the finest work of 'I Like Trains' or the broken melodies of 'Low'.
Both tracks are taken from their second album Lost Transmissions released to generally positive vibes late in 2008. Available as a physical CD from http://www.samu.co.uk it's made up of eleven tracks; it's fifty minutes in length and contains the exclusive video for the track 'Disaster Song'. Costing only five pounds, around four pounds from each sale is donated to Shelter.
http://m.idiomag.com/article/70877?CAKEPHP=r4t4461hallu5t2ku4dourt6r0
The album costs a measly £5, so buy the damn thing. You will not regret it. It's perfect for any fans of Post Rock, Shoegaze, etc.
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