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
Is it stating the obvious to say that the orchestrated Feel So Sad heavily apes Anthem from Powaqqatsi?
https://youtu.be/iyrrEyy7a6Q
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Monday, 23 July 2018 08:22 (five years ago) link
Can't hear any similarity myself.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Monday, 23 July 2018 11:47 (five years ago) link
New album is streaming on NPR. Sounds promising.
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/30/641541125/first-listen-spiritualized-and-nothing-hurt
― BrianEmo, Thursday, 30 August 2018 21:48 (five years ago) link
thanks for the headsup, BrianEmo!
― fragglerock, Thursday, 30 August 2018 23:26 (five years ago) link
it's p good, sounds much the same as the last one, oddly
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 August 2018 23:29 (five years ago) link
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.
― gman59, Friday, 31 August 2018 16:02 (five years ago) link
new record any good
― dig me out requiem (Ross), Friday, 7 September 2018 16:09 (five years ago) link
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
― ufo, Friday, 7 September 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
hm, cool. saw them live on a and e tour, excellent
― dig me out requiem (Ross), Friday, 7 September 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
I think it's crap and I'm Your Man is the only song that isn't a snoozer but ymmv
― imago, Friday, 7 September 2018 17:19 (five years ago) link
Havent heard it yet but posting to say imago has bad taste in music so ymmv with his posts/his opinions
― F# A# (∞), Friday, 7 September 2018 20:33 (five years ago) link
Take the hill in second gearYou can see my house from here
― koogs, Thursday, 20 September 2018 08:45 (five years ago) link
Lots of reports that last night's show was rather special
https://www.instagram.com/p/BoBeJeOHQhL/?taken-by=neilhalstead
― groovypanda, Saturday, 22 September 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link