So I had never heard of Spacemen 3 before, so “Playing With Fire” was definitely an experiment for me… Was quickly disappointed, as a primarily synth-driven album is not exactly in my musical wheelhouse… Quick observations were – - Most of the tracks were just not all that interesting to be honest, and while I tend to enjoy hypnotic music – the particular repetitive rhythms that run throughout most of this album were just boring… - The “vocals” if you can call them that, were hardly worth the time – both in terms of lyrical quality, as well as vocal quality… In fact, on a couple of tracks that I thought were the more reasonable ones, they were absolutely ruined by the absolutely awful vocal component… This album should have been all instrumental like “Explosions In The Sky” or another band like that – which would have resulted in a much better musical experience from my perspective… - On the positive side, I did find “Revolution” & “Suicide” to be somewhat compelling – with the later being the most interesting track on the album… I listened on TIDAL, and the remaster had a live version of “Suicide” which was really well-done – and I’d give that song a 4-stars out of 7 in my rating scale, so there is that… Nothing crazy here, but the best part of a pretty lackluster album… Giving it a 2 based on the 2 songs that I found most compelling…