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The history of music is full of also-rans, but few flared so bright, burned out so fast, and left behind, in their ashes, such a concise but exceptional body of work as Levitation. Their second album, Meanwhile Gardens, currently remains unreleased. But, despite a series of EPs, they left behind just one album, Need For Not, a record made by some of the finest players of their generation, men who took the stoner ambitions of the shoegaze scene to previously unscaled heights and won the admiration of some of the most powerful people in the music industry. The tale of Levitation is as messy as any you'll hear, a saga of gritty determination, musical communion, poor communication, extreme music and even more extreme exhaustion.
You could say that it began with the burning of bank notes in the back of a tour bus and ended with the break up of a band before a packed London audience, but these are arbitrary points in a tale that includes bust-ups, breakdowns and bankruptcies, a drive-by shooting and drugs. Levitation (L-R): Christian 'Bic' Hayes, Terry Bickers, Bob White, Laurence O'Keefe, David Francoliniįew stories have a beginning and an ending that one can pin down with any degree of precision, and the story of Levitation is no different.
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