Condition: New
Spiritualized - Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
Label: Fat Possum Records – FP1263
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, White, Heavyweight
White vinyl.
Country: US
Released: 08 May 2012
Genre: Rock
Style: Space Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Symphonic Rock
Tracklist
A1 Huh? (Intro) 1:00
A2 Hey Jane 8:51
A3 Little Girl 3:43
B1 Get What You Deserve 6:47
B2 Too Late 3:45
B3 Headin' For The Top Now
Vocals – Poppy Spaceman 8:22
C1 Freedom
Vocals – Romeo Stodart 4:31
C2 I Am What I Am
Written-By – Dr John 4:37
C3 Mary 6:11
D1 Life Is A Problem 4:02
D2 So Long You Pretty Things
Vocals – Poppy Spaceman
7:49
Spiritualized never did what I wanted them to do. When I heard "Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space", I wanted them to be another Sigur Ros. They aren't, never have been, and aren't now. And boy am I glad, because what they do is wonderful. After "Songs in A&E", Jason Pierce's deeply beautiful and interesting meditation on a near death experience (interestingly, largely written before he actually had a near death experience) I wasn't sure which way he'd go. He went big.
The album opens with a hypnotic instrumental, and segues quickly into "Hey Jane", which is a simply wonderful jangle rock tune that starts great and just gets grander, ending 8 minutes later in a blissed out reverb drenched singalong: "Sweet heart, sweet light, sweet heart, and love of my life" he sings, sounding utterly sincere and affirming. An absolutely wonderful amazing way to open the album.
"Headin' for the Top Now" stars out with a noisy crunchy guitar drone and then overlays a honky-tonk piano, then Pierce comes in with a world weary vocal that manages to channel the Stone Roses and Mick Jagger with attitude to spare. Huh? Yea. Exactly. "Mary", beautiful and soft on beginning, but evolving with a spare but funky guitar into a blues fueled chant. "Mary, you know this life's so sweet...Mary, you know we both have dreams but you're the one who gotta live them instead" Pierce sings while layers and layers of guitars and strings,not to mention layers of vocals pile on into an ecstasy of fuzzed out wonder. This album is long, slow and detailed, full of touches that reveal themselves over time, but is not delicate or precious--it is sincere, ambitious, and a very fulfilling listen.
Spiritualized - Freedom
Spiritualized - Hey Jane
Spiritualized - Get What You Deserve
Spiritualized - So Long You Pretty Thing
[live @ Other Voices, Dingle, Ireland
Spiritualized - Mary
Spiritualized - Headin' For The Top Now
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