Spiritualized
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Our favorite UK Space Rockers, Spiritualized will make an appearance in Detroit on Sept 7th. If you are not familiar with Spiritualized, the band formed from the ashes of Spaceman 3 and at this time only features Jason Pierce a.k.a. J Spaceman as an original member. Many people have come and gone (mostly kicked out per Jason) over various issues. The latest lineup features former Julian Cope musicians
The style of Spiritualized is a mix between shoegazer, garage rock, symphonic orchestra, blues, gospel, lots and lots of droning and wall of sound. While some songs are quite beautiful others can be hard on the ears with screeching guitar, fuzz, feedback, loops and other white noise. I don't think I have seen the band live unless it was at some festival years ago and I am debating about this show. It should be very good but I believe it might be an earplug night. I really haven't given the latest cd, Songs In A&E a fair listen and will try to this weekend. On the surface it has all the elements of the last few records and from other people, it's supposedly brilliant.
Posted by mardenhill 6/25/2008 10:48:00 PM
Labels: Music
