Spiritualized?

Is it just a reissue or also remaster/bonus tracks?

yeah, i can see the vinyl being re-available is a useful thing but will the cds be any different?

No bonus tracks. Remastered from original sources is what the press release says. CDs available.

wonder how it sounds. one of those albums I know backwards and forwards.

*** Spaceman Reissue Program ***

Pure Phase - the sublime second album - reissued with new artwork on double 180-gram glow-in-the-dark vinyl.

Plus a new series of Pure Phase merchandise based on the original, vintage designs.

Available to pre-order now https://t.co/dbqnehvtTw pic.twitter.com/2Rk0OVaFU8

— Spiritualized® (@officialSpzd) April 27, 2021

I need to bust out my old Pure Phase cassette copy--love that album.

I wish this recent vinyl-only Spaceman/Coxon guitar noise/improv set was also available as a DL--def not going to appeal to everyone, but the samples are scrappy feedback catnip to these ears: https://boomkat.com/products/play-the-red-krayola-live-1967

Man. My vinyl budget is stretched impossibly thin right now but I kind of want to hop on this- Lazer Guided Melodies was sold out from every source I could find the day I found out about the reissues (through the Pitchfork review, because I guess I am out of touch now)

though hey never mind Fat Possum have a restock of the white vinyl (though bafflingly not the regular ol' black) up for preorder:

https://store.fatpossum.com/products/lazer-guided-melodies?variant=32321767538801¤cy=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&gclid=Cj0KCQjwsqmEBhDiARIsANV8H3afUq9aMlnSkVz5tdabVj-au4AAExB3i3IjiwBC8HxzWjKfJ6btbqQaAksnEALw_wcB

fat possum vinyl is not good ime but maybe they’re better now

Hm. I went to the Steve Hoffman forums and the response is...mostly good? There have been a couple of people who received moderately warped discs but Fat Possum are apparently very responsive about replacing them.

I just ordered, since I've never owned these albums in any physical format; if anyone else is considering, the code FATPOSSUM20OFF works and got me $12 off when buying both.

My copy of the black vinyl ‘LGM’ has the worst warp I’ve had in ages on the first disk (looks like a rollercoaster) bit it plays through fine. Overall sound is fine, not amazing. Have ‘Pure Phase’ on order.

ah good to know, TT... it always felt perfect on CD to me, the clean shimmering crystaline-ness matching the physical medium... in fact I grew up with the cd that had the glitch on “angel sigh” so when I listen to the cd I have now I still get a little tripped up when it doesn’t start over again 1:00 in lol

Spiritualized opening up for Neil Young somewhere in the USA 1996.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oSeSbU984o

Ladies & Gents being reissued on Fat Possum. They really screwed the pooch on the artwork.

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2021/09/08/spiritualized-the-aquarium-drunkard-interview/

Good interview but just in case folks don't finish to the end:

Jason Pierce: Not much. I just finished a record. I’m kind of kicking my heels at the moment.

AD: When is it coming out?

Jason Pierce: Early next year.

AD: Will it be Spiritualized?

Jason Pierce: It’s a Spiritualized record as well. That seems like a weird kind of accomplishment.

*** Spaceman Reissue Program ***

Let It Come Down - the band’s epic fourth album - reissued with new artwork on limited double 180-gram ivory vinyl as well as standard black.

Out Oct 22. Available to pre-order now via https://t.co/bux8oadRqd pic.twitter.com/SYPV5wPGvl

— Spiritualized® (@officialSpzd) September 14, 2021

Possibly teasing a new album? "Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt" is quote from Slaughterhouse 5

エヴリシング・ワズ・ビューティフル™
Tout Était Magnifique™
Alles War Wunderschön™
Todo era bello™ pic.twitter.com/J6al54Ig94

— Spiritualized® (@officialSpzd) November 1, 2021

I wonder if that is supposed to be a cool symbol because all I see is a carton dieline.

Their previous tweet was that "symbol" against a plain background so wondering whether it's a slow album cover reveal

We need to be quick if we want to do a photoshop/MS Paint competition with it before the actual cover is revealed.

"Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt" is quote from Slaughterhouse 5

also one of the most cliched literary references in the history of underground music

discogs alone shows like 160 entries when you search that exact phrase (with some repeats, sure, but still)

Hope that isn't the title

Jason Spaceman using a cliche??????

ha ha ha, touche

Uh, you guys remember that "And Nothing Hurt" was the name of the most recent Spiritualized record from 2018.... right?

Yeah, thought that was obvious sorry. As in last album was And Nothing Hurt and the translation of their tweet is the first part of the quote.

So new album/companion piece I assumed (as can't imagine they're reissuing their last album)

Everything Was Beautiful
Out Feb 25th 2022
Available to pre-order now.
Limited edition boxset only available throughhttps://t.co/D98xVU4reL pic.twitter.com/R7mkkALlGC

— Spiritualized® (@officialSpzd) November 2, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME0ji3o05UQ

This is a remake of "Always Forgetting with You," a track off of The Space Project compilation.

Sounds like Spiritualized. Which I love, but I guess I've given up on the notion of being surprised by Jason.

one of the other tracks on this, "Best Thing You Never Had (The D Song)" has also been around since at least 2013.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnGNc8bA_bo

not completely unfamiliar to this group, but i bought 'let it come down' cd off the back of low covering 'lord, can you hear me'. i got five songs in tonight and had to turn it off... it sounded so cluttered, orchestrally overblown, no dynamics... i don't really think i get it? i tried to crack spacemen 3 when i was younger, but they were lost on me then, too. i wanna like them, though. what to listen to from here?

Lazer Guided Melodies. Less bombastic than LICD but more melodic than S3.

the S3 version is probably better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLVjB7SI9KA

I’d say Lazer Guided Melodies as well, maybe try this?

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

Finding 'Always Together With You' to be oddly affecting

yeah it's a good thing I discovered this after voting closed on the 2021 tracks poll haha

it's SO GOOD what am i

Album is out today and sounds excellent on first listen

Yep, excellent as usual. Mr. Spaceman is the most reliable purveyor of aural comfort food I know of

it's very nice, altho the opening track is the clear highlight

Oh cool thanks for the heads up.

so I loved their first bunch of albums and have seen them in concert several times and it was always great, but I pretty much gave up on them around Songs in A&E. Should I check this out or will it be more disappointment?

Let It Come Down is still my favorite Spiritualized album, and I feel like this new album and the last one tap into the soulful, hungover widescreen orchestral vibe of that one better than anything he's done since

that seems promising, I like Let It Come Down, but it definitely isn't my favorite. I really disliked when he went for more of a raw rock sound, it just didn't work for me, so maybe this is a step in the right direction.

This one also has a bit of a lo-fi LAGWAFIS feel about it too. You should definitely check it out

glad to see his knack for vague meaningless keep-it-positive titles hasn't waned

#goodvibesonly

Yep, excellent as usual. Mr. Spaceman is the most reliable purveyor of aural comfort food I know of

My thought listening to this album last night was, man this guy is consistent. I like the new one, he is good at doing what he does.

The first track is so choice, I keep playing it

Love the little country elements here and there.