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spacey

[spey-see] / ˈspeɪ si /


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The duo layer backing tracks until they seemingly collapse, like the dueling accenting rhythms of “Soledad” or the spacey and spectacular “Sensación,” which reaches a level of yearning that Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” couldn’t buy.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

Unlike most modern pop albums, it's the work of just three people, with Rae and her collaborators Elvira Anderfjärd and Luka Kloser establishing a stylish, spacey and occasionally off-kilter sonic palette all of their own.

From BBC Dec. 20, 2025

Many know her from her role as D-list comedienne Jenna Maroney on “30 Rock” or spacey socialite Jacqueline Voorhees in “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.”

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 17, 2025

And he appeared just as often in more popular fare, playing a spacey tank commander in “Kelly’s Heroes,” a demented arsonist in “Backdraft” and an authoritarian president in the “Hunger Games” films.

From Seattle Times Mar. 27, 2024

I felt very spacey and thought it was just best to repeat the last phrase of whatever the Colonel said so he could keep talking.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green

Lesh and Weir continued with Furthur, which reconnected to the adventurous improvisations of the Grateful Dead’s spacier excursions.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 25, 2024

Those “Midnight City” synths never stopped squeaking in our ears, but on the spacier rock-band record “Fantasy,” main man Anthony Gonzalez shows he still has a knack for expansive anthems.

From Seattle Times Apr. 19, 2023

I guess for a song that’s destined to orbit around this branch of military in perpetuity, I was hoping for something … I don’t know, spacier?

From Washington Post Sep. 20, 2022

Her vogue-inviting baile funk, topped with her sinuously musical Portuguese raps, is explosive on a club soundsystem; new single mEnorme shows off a softer, spacier R&B side.

From The Guardian Dec. 28, 2018

Deerhunter, his band, used to be noisier, sometimes punkier and sometimes more abstract; Atlas Sound, his solo recordings, used to be dronier and spacier.

From New York Times Nov. 27, 2011




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