Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space (1997/2020) [24bit FLAC]

The first-ever artist-approved vinyl reissue of Spiritualized's 1997 masterpiece, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space is here on 180g Deep Space Blue vinyl. It's the Essentials Record of the Month for September 2020.


So while Thom Yorke and band drew from the heady, complex songforms of British progressive rock in sculpting their masterpiece, Pierce’s simple epic songs looked over the pond instead to where despair, ecstasy, neglect, and the Holy Spirit all tussle. Meditating on the pain of heartbreak and the pleasure of drug use, Pierce blurs the lines between love, loneliness, happiness, and death on a scale he had never attained previously.

Andy Beta has been writing about music for many years, covering everything from the sacred music of Alice Coltrane and the rise of AI in pop, to the Tropicália revolution and Japanese minimalism. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Pitchfork, Texas Monthly, Bandcamp, and New York Magazine.