it's funny how Sonic has turned out to be the one much more concerned about their legacy/rep. Jason doesn't seem to give a shit at all. That joint statement that came out last year about that reissue dispute was the first time I can recall him ever being involved w/anything Spacemen 3 related.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 October 2017 20:09 (six years ago) link
shakey did you see spectrum and sonic do that Spacemen 2 show in SF like....dunno, 15 years ago or something? I didn't, always kind of regretted it.
― akm, Thursday, 19 October 2017 21:34 (six years ago) link
no but my bandmate did and he has a signed poster from it framed in our practice space
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 October 2017 21:55 (six years ago) link
official Fucked Up Inside on CD: https://www.discogs.com/Spiritualized-Fucked-Up-Inside/release/11198690
The Glass Redux CD marks the first commercially distributed UK release on Compact Disc; faithfully re-creating the original sleeve design, the guitar effects pedals embossed and silver foil blocked it is now presented for the first time in a fold out gatefold card wallet.
― brimstead, Saturday, 2 December 2017 18:18 (six years ago) link
er, reissue i mean
― brimstead, Saturday, 2 December 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
you know what i mean, you can read
pic.twitter.com/FpacqVtBl5— Spiritualized® (@officialSpzd) June 2, 2018
― groovypanda, Saturday, 2 June 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
A Perfect Miracle
New album (finally)?
― groovypanda, Saturday, 2 June 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
ha
came to post this
there's another one
pic.twitter.com/qIt7hh7jUw— Spiritualized® (@officialSpzd) June 3, 2018
― F# A# (∞), Monday, 4 June 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
The second one says "I'm Your Man" apparently. I wonder if we're getting a whole tracklist this way?
― brain (krakow), Monday, 4 June 2018 08:25 (five years ago) link
i hope it's a Wham! cover
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Monday, 4 June 2018 15:56 (five years ago) link
george michael and andrew ridgeley were very much the j spaceman and sonic boom of the pop charts so it would be a fitting tribute
― and TOWERS MONACO as 'seaman' (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 4 June 2018 15:59 (five years ago) link
― brain (krakow), Monday, June 4, 2018 10:25 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Good lord I hope not.
Stoked for new Spiritualized, but all this feels very "hi dere A&R how do i shot an album release in 2018 of I know do something daft"
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 4 June 2018 16:23 (five years ago) link
of=oh
it'd be cool if he included these little morse code sounds in the songs in some subtle way
― F# A# (∞), Monday, 4 June 2018 17:05 (five years ago) link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4mJWCfGj8Jk
― koogs, Monday, 4 June 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
yeah these long cryptic rollouts suck. just give us a single and a release date J
― Simon H., Monday, 4 June 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
Nice idea ∞. I don't mind a little bit of mysterious build-up, especially if it ends up fitting into some kind of concept and/or aesthetic for the album.
― brain (krakow), Monday, 4 June 2018 18:17 (five years ago) link
they erased all their tweets and instagram posts and redid everything in this orange thing, so i wouldn't be surprised if it's part of a new album art/aesthetic j's going for
i guess he's had enough of the drug references?
― F# A# (∞), Monday, 4 June 2018 18:24 (five years ago) link
Spiritualized without the drug references is a contradiction in terms, no?
― brain (krakow), Monday, 4 June 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
Another one today, which is this song:https://youtu.be/BqeRA6ZbywU
― groovypanda, Monday, 4 June 2018 20:53 (five years ago) link
Two new songs out on streaming services, Album's out on Sept. 7th. Both songs are pretty nice and typically lush, crystalline production, though "A Perfect Miracle" is awfully close to a retread of "Ladies and Gentlemen..."'s title track.
― Simon H., Monday, 11 June 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
wow that is a very classic rock-y guitar solo on I'm Your Man
― Οὖτις, Monday, 11 June 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
‘And Nothing Hurt’ was recorded by Pierce alone in his London home. In a press release, he said: “Making this record on my own sent me more mad than anything I’ve done before. We’d been playing these big shows and I really wanted to capture that sound we were making but, without the funds to do, I had to find a way to work within the constraints of what money I had. So I bought a laptop and made it all in a little room in my house.”
― Number None, Monday, 11 June 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link
that's insane
― Οὖτις, Monday, 11 June 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link
and a bit of a bummer
but then he's always been pretty open about plowing whatever money he's made back into the band so maybe not that surprising that he's not a millionaire
― Οὖτις, Monday, 11 June 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
I would not have guessed these were pure solo recordings!
― Simon H., Monday, 11 June 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
Though on closer listen there do seem to be a lot more synthesized elements than usual.
― Simon H., Monday, 11 June 2018 16:50 (five years ago) link
eh, pretty he's not playing drums or those horns
― Οὖτις, Monday, 11 June 2018 16:50 (five years ago) link
This is what happens when I listen on my shitty work headphones.
The fact that he couldn't do it up how he normally would really is a bummer.
― Simon H., Monday, 11 June 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link
pretty SURE
I meant to say
― Οὖτις, Monday, 11 June 2018 17:00 (five years ago) link
oh he also said this
The biggest thing for me was to try to make it sound like a studio session. There are bits that I went to a studio to record – mainly drums and percussion. I mean, there’s no way I’m going to get timpani up my stairs. When I came to terms with how I was going to make the record, I assumed it was going to sound like Lee Perry – all flying in from different angles; all extraordinary and not hi-tech in construction. But I was new to it all, I didn’t have all the short cuts people use when they’re making records – I just sat there for weeks… for months… moving every level up bit by bit just to try to get the sounds right.
― Number None, Monday, 11 June 2018 17:22 (five years ago) link
The press release
― jaywbabcock, Monday, 11 June 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
Do we have a tally on how many artists have used some variation of that stupid Vonnegut quote as a fucking title? Didn't Moby also just release an album with this title?? Like, thirty years after every screamo band had already exhausted it?
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 11 June 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link
Welcome back, Spaceman, I salute you <3
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 June 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
I wanted to like this but having listened IDK, I was hoping the transition to working as a bedroom producer would have taken in him a new and more interesting direction. The last thing I want to hear is him recreating his post-Let It Come Down sound with cheaper production values.
― Matt DC, Monday, 11 June 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
Agreed, but post LICD has *a lot* of really bad songs. No high production value will make them better songs. These are at least p dece songs.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 June 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
(not been able to blast these on my own stereo though, mind)
It's nice we're correctly treating LICD as a good album
― imago, Monday, 11 June 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link
It's his last good album, mos def
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 June 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
the last record was p solid though i can only remember "hey jane" and the closer really
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Monday, 11 June 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link
xp I mean I think it's better than LAG... but am aware that's wild talk
― imago, Monday, 11 June 2018 17:49 (five years ago) link
"i'm your man" sounds great imo
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Monday, 11 June 2018 17:50 (five years ago) link
xp I am... inclined to agree? LAG has all-time status, but LICD is an album I keep coming back to.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 June 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
Thinking about it, it's really about whether on any given day I prefer the two longest tracks on each album /vmic
― imago, Monday, 11 June 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
LAG became so classic, I'm burned out on parts of it. Come Together, Electricity, they're great, but I skip them nowadays. It's not that way with LICD.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 June 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
"Life is a Problem" is one of his best sad bastard tunes.
― Simon H., Monday, 11 June 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
(apart from the opener, On Fire, tbh, that piano gets on my nerves) xp
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 June 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
Don't Just Do Something is 'Think I'm In Love' glorious, Out Of Sight, Twelve Steps and Straight and the Narrow is one helluva run, before the final third kicks in. Perfect album (apart from the opener).
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 June 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link