Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Label:

Arista

Catalog#:

07822-18974-2

Format:

CD, Album

Country:

Released:

1997

Genre:

Electronic, Rock

Style:

Psychedelic Rock, Shoegazer, Ambient

Tracklist

1	Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space	3:40	X
2	Come Together	4:40	X
3	I Think I'm In Love	8:09	X
4	All Of My Thoughts	4:36	X
5	Stay With Me	5:08	X
6	Electricity	3:46	X
7	Home Of The Brave	2:22	X
8	The Individual	4:15	X
9	Broken Heart	6:38	X
10	No God Only Religion	4:21	X
11	Cool Waves	5:06	X
12	Cop Shoot Cop…	17:13	X

Credits

Accordion - Angel Corpus Christi
Arranged By - J. Spaceman
Arranged By [Choir] - Reverend Basil Hughes, The* , Irreverend J. Spaceman, The*
Arranged By [Horns] - Ed Coxon* , J. Spaceman , Simon Clarke (2) , Tim Sanders
Arranged By [Strings] - Clare Connors , J. Spaceman
Artwork By [Concept] - Farrow Design
Artwork By [Design] - Farrow Design , Spaceman
Bass [Fender Jazz], Harmonica - Sean Cook
Cello - Sophie Harris
Choir - London Community Gospel Choir, The*
Drums [Gretsch Round Badge], Percussion, Bells, Timpani - Damon Reece
Edited By - Mads Bjerke
Engineer [Assistant] - Chad Bamford , Chris Scard , Darren Nash , Lem Lattimer , Patrick McGovern
Engineer [Mix] - Chad Bamford , Darren Allison , John Leckie , Mads Bjerke , Pat McCarthy , Trevor Curwen
Engineer [Recording] - Carl Nappa , Darren Allison , Darren Nash , Mads Bjerke , Trevor Curwen
Flute, Saxophone [Baritone] - Simon Clarke (2)
French Horn - Tim Jones*
Guitar [Gibson Firebird, Fender Jaguar], Melodica, Synthesizer [Jd-800] - John Coxon
Mastered By - Ray Staff
Mixed By - J. Spaceman
Organ [Hammond] - Andy Davis
Organ [Vox Continental, Farfisa Compact], Keyboards [Roland D20], Piano, Vocals - Kate Radley
Piano, Vocals - Dr. John
Producer - J. Spaceman , John Coxon (tracks: 5, 8)
Saxophone [Tenor] - Terry Edwards , Tim Sanders
Steel Guitar [Pedal Steel] - B.J. Cole*
Technician [Post-production] - Mads Bjerke
Trombone - Neil Sidwell
Trumpet, Flugelhorn - Roddy Lorimer
Viola - Kathy Burgess
Violin - Alexander Balanescu , Clare Connors , Ed Coxon*
Vocals, Guitar [Fender Telecaster], Guitar [Fender Jaguar], Guitar [Vox Starstreamer], Guitar [Gibson Firebird], Piano, Dulcimer [Hammer Dulcimer], Autoharp - Spaceman*
Written-By - J. Spaceman

Notes

Recorded and mixed at Moles Studio - Bath, The Church, Rooster and The Strongroom Studios - London, House of Blues - Memphis, The Hit Factory - New York and A&M - Los Angeles.
Mastered at Whitfield Street Recording Studios

℗ & © 1997 Dedicated. Marketed, Manufactured and Distributed by Arista Records, Inc., a unit of BMG Entertainment. Printed in U.S.A.

Bar Code: 0 7822-18974-2 6

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Rated 5/5

Review by djproject Feb 15, 2006 (edited over 3 years ago)

Let's get the façade thing out of the way.

The packaging of this album continues the modus operandi of Spacemen 3 leading into Spiritualized: "take drugs to make music for taking drugs." Of course this veers it more into the prescribed realm as oppose to taking medicinal matters into your own hands. But if you see this album as purely for its packaging, you are missing the point and the milestone.

Musically, this is a crossroads album. The overall tone is still neo-psychedelic and noise-based. And yet there is a slickness feel to it. There are horns and strings and the feel is like pop music of the 1960s. But there is definitely a contemporary feel in terms of the sounds and the way it is layered. It is almost like if Phil Spector were reproducing a Blur track that was originally produced by Stephen Street, which was based on a recording session with William Orbit at the helm. But furthermore, it shows a musical maturity of Jason Pierce (J. Spaceman) where he is no longer just regurgating old music. He is finally heading to make his own music. (Then came "Let It Come Down")

Lyrically, I always hear it as a breakup/breakup recovery album. The means to forget love's bittersweet taste is through, appropriately enough, drugs. The end is a strange headtrip where it goes into melancholy, deep depression, resolution, hyperactivity, rashness and back to melancholy. Musically it's a big moodswing as well but it's the lyrics that explains it. After all, you can draw all kinds of conclusions if the entire album were made like "The individual" and "No God only religion." It something that I knew would explain what was going on inside my head and heart whenever a relationship ended, especially one where I didn't think it would.

And I still croon with deep sadness to the last verse of "Cop shoot cop"