Computer Age

Spiritualized
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
(1997 Dedicated)

After leaving the cult group of Spaceman 3, Jason Pierce decided to continue investigating until after 2 revealing attempts, with a substance that believes it can solve many existential problems are still without treatment. Took pains to seek help from prestigious teachers to achieve this and not spared in budget: string quintet, wind sextet, gospel choir, piano, accordion, pedal steel, apart from their own group with guitars, bass, percussion, harmonica, Several synthesizers and effects, all aimed at achieving a specific purpose: cure or at least relief from ailments of the heart and soul.
It is curious how it presents the disc, a box as if it were a medicine, with its expiration date (03 - 3001), with a leaflet informing of the composition, indications, side effects ... and the CD in your pack kind of compressed 70 min. to take 1 or 2 times a day.
To begin the disc misses a classic hand of a very personal version of Pachelbel's Canon, with which we try to gently raise, to continue with 'Come Together' and it gives us to understand that although we are still floating around his feet glued to continue the earth. 'I think I'm in love' and allows us to forget the soil, search our problems and conflicts and observe them without affecting us too. 'All of my thoughts' shows the amount of clutter and thoughts that we are not aware of their existence and influence. 'Stay with me' gives us an expected relief to get relax first and then increase the defenses against future ailments. 'Electricity' takes us through tunnels and labyrinths that need to cross, with landscapes that fear and noise prevent us from appreciating in all its variety. 'Home of the brave' gives us shelter in a refuge to feed and retrieve forces after the road trip. 'The individual' are the dreams and nightmares after the food poisoning that we have offered. At the end 'Broken Heart "awake us and despite being shattered and exhausted by the bad moves in life, we give thanks for breath and feel the warmth of the sun on our face. With 'No God only religion' put us back on track by visiting churches and squares crammed with people, checking that the man not to talk to not say anything. In 'Cool waves' leaving behind the worldly noise, we are entering forests of waves and tears and we pegamos a swim in rivers of love and farewell ... before embarking on the way home thinking that the trip has been worth it, the disease has remained in the memory as experience, we are healed ... a surprise storm, they still have not finished the dangers, a small relapse, but we feel stronger after the effects of the tablet and get down to the daily routine without gravity crush us .
While the definition of epic overflies entire disc, it also highlights the continued sway of styles and emotions, calm and noise, electricity and pastoral acoustics, an amalgam of psychedelic rock, symphonic, soul, blues, noise, pop, gospel-space ... rock ... that if in theory and its excessive ambition was very easy to move from braking, in practice thanks to the great moment, inspiration, work and good understanding of the whole band, Spiritualized have achieved a record that is to history as a breakthrough or at least a turn in rock music.
(Contra: avoid if you have heard his allergy to progressive rock, or derivatives thereof).