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 Excellent Ambient and more Oct 19, 2009
This in one of my top 5 favorite albums and definitely one that, in my opinion, is worth a try even if you're not a hard-core ambient or psychedelic fan. It's not very accessible, so if you're looking for pop music you might not like it, but if you want to listen to a really challenging, emotional, and engrossing album, there's a lot to discover here. And if you are an electronica fan - it's an essential album
Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space Oct 09, 2009
Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space being Spiritualized 3rd studio album and their 1997 release can be said to be a mix of post rock, Britt rock and space rock. The album was hailed by the critics when it was released and The Guardian, Allmusic and NME all gave it high marks. The booklet is very neat and resembles a prescription for a medicine. The lyrics are not included in the booklet but we get a list of whom plays what. Not easy listening but a very cerebral experience and it sounds a bit like Bowie and late Beatles. 4/5.
Help For Dealing With Your Seperation Aug 14, 2009
There's a show called "Sonic Vision" that Moby helped put together, and it is a laser show set to psychedelic rock music. It's put on at a lot of local space centers and observatories, etc. Anyways, when the song, "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space," comes on during the show it is unforgettable. One of the most moving experiences I've ever had. But in this cesspit of an economy it seems everyone is arguing and breaking up. I'm sure many of you are dealing with something similar, my fiance and I also recently seperated. All I know is that this album is helping me deal with that.
Kitchen-sink instrumentation and production makes for a wild and pleasingly deep album Jun 03, 2009
The third album by Jason Pierce's project Spiritualized, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WE ARE FLOATING IN SPACE is a therapeutic record, meant to help Pierce get over a doomed relationship and offer some solace to listeners out there. Indeed, the remarkable design of the album, worth carefully admiring before playing the record, has it matching a box of medicinal tablets (the limited edition went one step further by placing each of the 12 tracks on its own individually wrapped disc).
The album consists in the main of three types of material: droning rock guitars, grand string or choir arrangements, and free jazz-like jamming. A few tracks are dominated by one particular sound ("Come Together" the first, "Stay with Me" by the second, and "Cop Shoot Cop" by the third). Generally, however, Pierce has created his songs from massive layering of elements that reconcile elements one might consider heterogenous. Underneath the rigid structure of most tracks, there's a guitar or saxophone line that is complete pandemonium. The contribution of the Balanescu Quartet, the London Community Gospel Choir and Dr. John give the album a memorable grandeur, and Pierce merits praise for keeping the tradition of Phil Spector "wall of sound" production alive.
But the downside of the album is its lyrics. As my listening nowadays mainly consists of classical and contemporary classical music, where texts are taken from great poets, it's getting harder for me to stomach a lot of rock lyrics. The title track of this album, for example, has a cloying refrain beginning with "I will love you till I die / and I will love you all the time." On "Home of the Brave", the story behind "Sometimes I have my breakfast right off of a mirror / And sometimes I have it right out a bottle" may be tragic, but it's ludicrously phrased.
In spite of mild complaints, however, I come back to LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WE ARE FLOATING IN SPACE quite often and can recommend it to listeners looking for psychadelic music of recent times.
 Indulgent inspirations May 27, 2009
Spiritualized's most known entry is a diverse enough collection of distorted orchestrations which thrive off repetition to hold up on repeated listens, though a swelling cacophony often merely disguises compositions that can drag instead of elevating like intended.
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