Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies - 90s Minimalist Modern Rock 180gram 2LP
2LP

Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies

Label: Plain Recordings
Catalog#: plain159
Format: 2 x Vinyl, Album, Reissue, 180 gram
Includes original printed inner sleeves with artwork and credits.
New
Country: US
Originally Released: 1999
Issue Released: 15 Feb 2011
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Experimental

Track Listings

Side 1

You Know It's True
If I Were With Her Now
I Want You

Side 2

Run
Smiles
Step Into The Breeze
Symphony Space

Side 3

Take Your Time
Shine A Light

Side 4

Angel Sigh
Sway
200 Bars


J. Spaceman's debut which remains the band's masterpiece, a record of rock hypnosis unlike any other with soaring space rock guitars, ambient drones, keyboard/organ, brass, strings, woodwinds...genre-defying and perhaps the greatest album of the '90s (along with the Verve's Storm in Heaven).

The first track is a soothing, sleepy-eyed song. The pulsing guitar and the horn section in "If I Were With Her Now" wakes you up, though. It is not always a quiet album, but an album with a "fluid" quality (for lack of a better term) that takes its listener away to different emotions. The cover artwork is perfect for the music. Although I was disappointed, catchy tracks like "I Want You" and "Run" and the beautiful "Step Into the Breeze" kept me coming back
My favorite piece is "Shine A Light".

It is a blissful expansion of consciousness that embodies all of the freedom encountered in the first rock'n'roll dream of the '60s. Beyond that, words fail me as the album's songs are arranged in four multitrack suites which sound like variations on recurring musical themes which ebb and flow throughout the album, a reinvention of classical minimalism in the age of modern rock.

ONCE DESCRIBED AS THE SOUND OF ANGELS JAMMING AT GOD'S BIRTHDAY PARTY THIS ALBUM STILL SOUNDS AS POWERFUL TODAY..




Spiritualized - If I Were With Her Now

Their best album by a mile, Jason was at a peak in his songwriting with something to prove. It goes to those deep places inside.



Spiritualized - Smiles



Spiritualized - Shine A Light

One of the most glorious pieces of music ever recorded and what may be the greatest film ever made.



Spiritualized - Take Your Time

playing live at brixton academy

Truely amazing - sends shivers down my spine!