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
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
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Monday, 11 June 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link
Yeah that's bonkers. Shows you not to cheat on us on other boards! ;)
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 June 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
Pure Phase is the best one, I thought we all knew that
― imago, Monday, 11 June 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
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...
― Matt DC, Monday, 11 June 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
it's long and loose but its best moments are basically the peak of the band imo
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Monday, 11 June 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link
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.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 11 June 2018 19:01 (five years ago) link
Video here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vNrHoLS1zc
― groovypanda, Monday, 11 June 2018 20:53 (five years ago) link
wait who is kathleen pierce and why is she being memorialized?
― F# A# (∞), Monday, 11 June 2018 22:03 (five years ago) link
I think Kathleen Pierce is Jason's mum. Looks like she died around this time last year.
― brain (krakow), Monday, 11 June 2018 22:39 (five years ago) link
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.
― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Monday, 11 June 2018 23:34 (five years ago) link
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?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 June 2018 23:56 (five years ago) link
Polara opened on the PP tour out here (though the better show was a couple months earlier when Spz. opened for Siouxsie)
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 07:43 (five years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 12:28 (five years ago) link
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!
― Bee OK, Thursday, 14 June 2018 01:29 (five years ago) link
Knock twice.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 June 2018 01:35 (five years ago) link
found it: There will be a Live Nation presale taking place on Thursday, June 14, at 10 a.m. Password: GOODVIBES.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 14 June 2018 01:37 (five years ago) link
i'm going to Spiritualized in Los Angeles. i think this will be the fifth time seeing them. very excited.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 14 June 2018 23:41 (five years ago) link
Based on the first two tracks this will probably be the first Spz tour I’ll sit out.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 18 June 2018 05:35 (five years ago) link
Never really got into sweet heart sweet light, is it good ?
― No angel came (Ross), Friday, 20 July 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
Yes
― Οὖτις, Friday, 20 July 2018 16:53 (five years ago) link