Spiritualized?

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

Yeah that's bonkers. Shows you not to cheat on us on other boards! ;)

Pure Phase is the best one, I thought we all knew that

I listened to Pure Phase in the park yesterday for a long time and it sounded glorious. It's not the best (Lazer Guided Melodies and Ladies & Gentlemen feel slightly better realised) and there's a sense that some of the PP songs could have been arranged better, but the idea that it's their worst album when you consider some of the dreck they've released over the last decade is...

it's long and loose but its best moments are basically the peak of the band imo

all their albums up through LICD are great imo, the two after that are a bit spotty. The last one is very solid imo, and its closing track is one of the best things he ever wrote.

Video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vNrHoLS1zc

wait who is kathleen pierce and why is she being memorialized?

I think Kathleen Pierce is Jason's mum. Looks like she died around this time last year.

The last one is very solid imo, and its closing track is one of the best things he ever wrote.

Agree that that track is a banger, but I'd sooner listen to anything from the first two/three instead.

Another vote for Pure Phase.

I think I listen to Pure Phase more than any of the others. I saw them in a little club on that tour. Want to say the Dandy Warhols opened?

Polara opened on the PP tour out here (though the better show was a couple months earlier when Spz. opened for Siouxsie)

So weird, I guess the show I saw was in 1997, so must have been the L&G tour! Wow. Next time I saw them was opening for Radiohead the next year.

i'm going to the Los Angeles show on Oct 16 Los Angeles, CA Orpheum Theatre. the pre-sale goes on sale tomorrow. i need a code!

Knock twice.

found it: There will be a Live Nation presale taking place on Thursday, June 14, at 10 a.m. Password: GOODVIBES.

i'm going to Spiritualized in Los Angeles. i think this will be the fifth time seeing them. very excited.

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