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Useless Spaceman is a Melbourne-based indie rock band, with traces of punk and psychedelia. The group formed in the late 2010s, performing at house parties on the northside and becoming regulars at venues like the Brunswick Hotel, Bar Open, and Cherry Bar. Known for their raucous, theatrical live shows and sprawling, half-psychotic lyrical narratives, Spaceman recorded their eponymous EP in a partially demolished rehearsal studio in Richmond, on a budget of $700. Following the 2019 single and video release "Brunswick West", the band strapped in for the Victorian lockdowns and began producing their first LP, The Marlboro Man Rides Again. The album is a freaky, blissed-out joyride twisting and turning across genres, exploring themes of love, loss, paranoia, corporate spirituality, disorganised attachment, and the colonisation of our solar system.