Spiritualized?

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.

no but my bandmate did and he has a signed poster from it framed in our practice space

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.

er, reissue i mean

you know what i mean, you can read

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— Spiritualized® (@officialSpzd) June 2, 2018

A Perfect Miracle

New album (finally)?

ha

came to post this

there's another one

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— Spiritualized® (@officialSpzd) June 3, 2018

The second one says "I'm Your Man" apparently. I wonder if we're getting a whole tracklist this way?

i hope it's a Wham! cover

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

The second one says "I'm Your Man" apparently. I wonder if we're getting a whole tracklist this way?

― 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"

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it'd be cool if he included these little morse code sounds in the songs in some subtle way

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4mJWCfGj8Jk

yeah these long cryptic rollouts suck. just give us a single and a release date J

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.

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?

Spiritualized without the drug references is a contradiction in terms, no?

Another one today, which is this song:

https://youtu.be/BqeRA6ZbywU

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.

wow that is a very classic rock-y guitar solo on I'm Your Man

‘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.”

that's insane

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

I would not have guessed these were pure solo recordings!

Though on closer listen there do seem to be a lot more synthesized elements than usual.

eh, pretty he's not playing drums or those horns

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.

pretty SURE

I meant to say

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.

The press release

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?

Welcome back, Spaceman, I salute you <3

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.

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.

(not been able to blast these on my own stereo though, mind)

It's nice we're correctly treating LICD as a good album

It's his last good album, mos def

the last record was p solid though i can only remember "hey jane" and the closer really

xp I mean I think it's better than LAG... but am aware that's wild talk

"i'm your man" sounds great imo

xp I am... inclined to agree? LAG has all-time status, but LICD is an album I keep coming back to.

Thinking about it, it's really about whether on any given day I prefer the two longest tracks on each album /vmic

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.

"Life is a Problem" is one of his best sad bastard tunes.

(apart from the opener, On Fire, tbh, that piano gets on my nerves) xp

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).

i'm having an argument on another board with someone who thinks pure phase is "easily their worst" so i'm revisiting it now. first, what, 6-7 tracks are absolutely unfuckwithable? and that's before "electric mainline" happens