This review made my day.

This is from a German reviewer:

Creaking wood, waves bashing against a boat, ambient soundscapes and the infamous "pling" from the intro of Pink Floyd's Echoes start off Voyage by Spaces, a two man project hailing from Brooklyn, NY, accompanied by a guitar solo which gets torn apart by an upcoming storm. Right after that they fire off a solo that seems to come right out of Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V) from Pink Floyd's 1975 record Wish You Were Here... fantastic!

The 4 track record Voyage is a little bit like, you'll never guess, a voyage, but on an almost uninhabited planet: at times beautiful, at times strange but always interesting... if you've got enough exploratory spirit. This voyage leads us through an lot of different genres (Ambient, Progressive Rock, Experimental, etc.), from slow (At Sea) to very fast songs with lots of groove (Flight) and sometimes we meet a travel companion along the way (Make Ready).

While the first track breathes the spirit of Pink Floyd, slowly meandering along to no certain destination, each of the other songs is inspired by another band/genre in general. The last two tracks are straight forward rock songs, including conventional structure, tight drumming and some nice riffs. The first two tracks are way more interesting because here, Spaces do whatever they like... and that they do very well.

In Make Ready, they pair up their accoustic guitar with a synthesizer that sounds like they brought it back from the seventies with a time machine, which today, if you wanted to be a rock band, you would never do because apparently, it's frowned upon. But to take it up a notch, they use an accordion right after the synthesizer. Near the end of the song, they add a lot of distortion which seems very strange following those nice tunes and creates a really nightmarish scenery. To make that scenery complete, they add heavily distorted samples of a man speaking in a language I have never heard in my life. Thats not even close to what happiness sounds like... but that also changes from song to song.

Everybody out there who likes/sort of likes the genres I mentioned in this review should definitly check out these songs composed by Spaces. I myself like it a lot and I sincerely hope that theyadd some more great tracks to this work in progress called Voyage... hopefully they are as ingenious as Make Ready.