Spiritualized?

Based on the first two tracks this will probably be the first Spz tour I’ll sit out.

Never really got into sweet heart sweet light, is it good ?

Yes

Is it stating the obvious to say that the orchestrated Feel So Sad heavily apes Anthem from Powaqqatsi?

https://youtu.be/iyrrEyy7a6Q

Can't hear any similarity myself.

New album is streaming on NPR. Sounds promising.

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/30/641541125/first-listen-spiritualized-and-nothing-hurt

thanks for the headsup, BrianEmo!

it's p good, sounds much the same as the last one, oddly

Loving this so far. One of the most consistent albums he's put out since 2001 imo. It's pretty much a continuation of where he's been for the past 2 albums but I feel like he's perfected it here. Nothing will probably ever compare to Let It Come Down, Ladies and Gentleman, Pure Phase or his Spacemen 3 stuff mostly due to where I was at in my life but this is definitely my favorite since those days.

Also, can't shake the "Baby I'm Just A Fool" melody from "Let's Dance". Love em both but in my head it's acting as a sequel.

new record any good

it's decent and if you like Spiritualized you'll probably like it. the recording process seems pretty interesting in that he took an Avalanches-esque approach of piecing together most of the orchestration from tiny samples but it's not too apparent actually listening to it

hm, cool. saw them live on a and e tour, excellent

I think it's crap and I'm Your Man is the only song that isn't a snoozer but ymmv

Havent heard it yet but posting to say imago has bad taste in music so ymmv with his posts/his opinions

Take the hill in second gear
You can see my house from here

Lots of reports that last night's show was rather special

https://www.instagram.com/p/BoBeJeOHQhL/?taken-by=neilhalstead

Set list here: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/spiritualized/2018/eventim-apollo-london-england-6be9da2a.html

Looks like he's playing the album start-to-finish.

Going to eat my words above - we went to the Brooklyn show last night and it was terrific. All the new songs (especially that anemic first half) are 100% improved live.

Oh yeah? Will keep that in mind.

I have to say, there's a kind of thinness/brittleness to the production sound of everything post-Let it Come Down that bothers me a bit, and this one is no exception. Still, lots of good stuff on it.

very nice to hear Elvis Telecom. i'm seeing them in a few days. i fucking love this album, it's all i have been playing for the last two weeks. it has grown on me and now ready for a show.

You have posted 15,000 messages

man, i have been here a long ass time. it's actually not acurate as my phone says i have posted about 25 more than that. so i don't think my phone posts are counting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbO0xabMlhA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Boev1lbaNQI

That was awesome

on my way, so excited!

Fascinating new details on Spiritualized inner workings (abandoned sessions with Youth and Visconti? *still* losing money on tour???) for the obsessives. And some comments on Spacemen 3. https://www.vogue.com/article/jason-pierce-spiritualized-kings-theatre

still love this new album

elvis, do spiritualized still rip live

saw them on a and e tour and was surprised at how transformative and heavy it was

Spiritualized was one of my favorite bands for a long time, but it's been diminishing returns for years now. The new one is less half-assed than the last couple, but is pretty dull regardless. I'm not surprised they still do a great live show though.

elvis, do spiritualized still rip live

saw them on a and e tour and was surprised at how transformative and heavy it was

not Elvis but short answer, yes. i have seen them now three times. once on the Pure Phase tour, then i saw them as the opening band on the OK Computer tour. as you may or may not know they only had two US dates, one in New York and last nights in Los Angeles. i feel very fortunate that i was able to see this show. i think Jason might be having health issues, i don't know for sure but he did sit down the whole time and is very skinny but he sounded so beautiful last night. he had a 30 piece band behind him. adding him there were 31 people on stage, it was a very special night as there is no way he can do this for a full tour. they started with some older songs and then after around the seventh song they played the new album front to back. i have only been listening to the new album for the last few weeks so i knew it inside and out. i love the new song and now reading the above article it a very good last album ever by Spiritualized. they ended the show with the last song from that album and did a three song encore. they had a 10 women back round singers that made it feel like a southern church choir. as most of you know, a lot of songs have to do with Jesus so it worked very well. this show would have been a junkies paradise as i felt like i was on drugs when i was not. his voice is stronger than ever and his Spiritualized backing band was on point all night long. there were two drummers too. a very special band and i would see them if they add more dates, it was well worth it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsn4xoyGaWM

He has performed sitting down since... 2000? And also often performed sitting down in S3.

I’ve seen them probably a dozen times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bHw_qhjMEU

hmm, i don't remember him sitting down when i saw him in '95 or '97 but i'm probably wrong.

xpost

oh, you said since 2000, yeah i missed 18 years of touring.

Orpheum Theatre, Los Angeles - October 16, 2018:

1. Hold On
2. Come Together
3. Shine a Light
4. Stay With Me
5. Soul on Fire
6. Broken Heart
7. A Perfect Miracle
8. I'm Your Man
9. Here It Comes (The Road) Let's Go
10. Let's Dance
11. On the Sunshine
12. Damaged
13. The Morning After
14. The Prize
15. Sail on Through

Encore:

16. So Long You Pretty Thing
17. Out of Sight
18. Oh Happy Day
19. Hold On (Reprise)

I love the new album but I have been left wondering how much better it would have been if he'd been able to have the gospel choir & orchestra on it a la LAGWAFIS.

It's great to have a chance to hear them like that in these live videos and I wonder if/hope we'll see another live album in the not too distant future. Or at least a bootlegged soundboard recording of one of these shows.

elvis, do spiritualized still rip live

saw them on a and e tour and was surprised at how transformative and heavy it was

It's somewhat difficult to answer this one. I've seen Spiritualized 16 times now - the first time was in 1992 when there were still a quorum of Spacemen 3 members in the band (Jon Mattock on drums) and the last time (until last week) was 21 years later at Pappy & Harriets during a Joshua Tree windstorm (Kid Millions on drums). Both shows included "Medication" and for me, that's about as good as it gets. LGM is my favorite album. Never really cared for LAGWAFIS much until I saw it performed live start-to-finish at Radio City in 2010 when that potential of krautrock gospel + Sun Ra transcendence finally lined up. It's that potential that keeps me coming back.

Both shows included "Medication" and for me, that's about as good as it gets.

inclined to agree here

I love the new album but I have been left wondering how much better it would have been if he'd been able to have the gospel choir & orchestra on it a la LAGWAFIS.

I would be so much happier with the new album if it was a well-recorded "wall of sound" with all of the players from these shows rather than something pieced together from Jason's computer.

I was thinking that, but if we didn't know that was how he recorded it, would we really be able to tell the difference?

Yes

thanks Elvis and Bee OK (also good to see you around again, seems like you have been around less lately)

you can definitely hear the difference between the live orchestration/performances on, say, Let it Come Down, and the patched-together sampled approach on the new one. budgets matter.

Very true

You're right I haven't been around much and when I have I have been on the baseball board. I'm still thinking about opening up a new Artist thread however. Not positive yet.

Xpost

I was at the Los Angeles show, and I was happy to see "Hold On" get so much shine. I have always loved that song and have never seen much praise for it around. I did think some details from the new record got lost in the wash with the big ensemble, but Lord, it washed over me.

I'm glad Stay With Me has come back into his setlists, that song is great and always felt like a kind of bastard child from between Pure Phase and LAGWAFIS that got overlooked

Complete Works like a warm bath this evening.