"Then I Just Drifted Away" is followed by some more of Spectrum's most conventional songwriting that is just pure pleasure in audio form. It's just blissful and the lyrics are almost wistful but you hardly notice because the music's light and pleasant so you hardly realize what Kember is singing about (kudos to whoever gets that reference) or what his exact feelings are. It's so welcoming and warm that you can almost drift away yourself while listening to it. It takes you away for a bit between the excellent opening number "Under the Taboo" and gradually blends into my favorite song on the LP, "Then I Just Drifted Away." Let me speak for a second about this song. If you're familiar with Kember's work as Sonic Boom/Specrum, you'll recognize these drug inspired interludes immediately and it really takes you into the album if your concentrating fully on the album itself and not distracted by outside influences. The aptly titled "Feedback" is a good example of this dreamy gliding sound that goes so well with being zoned out of your mind.
Drugs are innately ingrained in Spectrum's sound and like most good music, inspired the creators to make more interesting work (and in this case, more relaxing work and music that has the ability to release "feel good" chemicals in the brain, even if the listener is sober). A S3 album once dubbed Kember and Pierce's sound "music to take drugs to" and Highs, Lows, and Heavenly Blows is no exception. However, when Spacemen 3 finally broke up, the two went their respectable separate ways both keeping the S3 aesthetic, in the same vein (pun intended) as their precursor with spaced-out reverb and heroin drenched songs that float by lazily and are often quite hypnotic. Junkies are volatile by nature, so these things are not uncommon. Peter Kember, founding member of Spacemen 3, had something of a rocky fallout between Jason Pierce when the eighties were coming to a close. Research indicates that endorphins are involved in many things, including respiration, nausea, vomiting, pain modulation, and hormonal regulation." The brain itself also produces substances known as endorphins that activate the opiate receptors.
Two important effects produced by opiates, such as morphine, are pleasure (or reward) and pain relief.
Once an opiate reaches the brain, it quickly activates the opiate receptors that are found in many brain regions and produces an effect that correlates with the area of the brain involved. "Opiates elicit their powerful effects by activating opiate receptors that are widely distributed throughout the brain and body.
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