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Album of the day: Spiritualized – Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space [Collector's Editon]

Posted on Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen...

Lovingly pinched from Pitchfork: “There’s a hole in my arm where all the money goes,” moans Jason Pierce at the start of “Cop Shoot Cop…”, the 17-minute closer of Spiritualized’s third album and lone masterpiece, Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space. His bedraggled voice drips through the words. He’s an addict, but it’s as if he realizes none of it mattered, anyway — there’s no salvation, no redemption, only cold life and sudden death. One cop lives to kill another cop. Or a junkie survives only long enough to shoot up again. The world keeps turning. Just like in his opening line, he quotes John Prine: “Jesus Christ died for nothing, I suppose.”

Since the 1997 release of Ladies and Gentlemen, Spiritualized have recorded three LPs, a handful of singles and EPs, and two double-disc sets called Complete Works. And the noise-gospel rock sprees that followed Ladies and Gentlemen cemented Spiritualized’s reputation as one of rock ‘n’ roll’s best live spectacles.

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Album of the day: High on Fire – Snakes for the Divine

Posted on Monday, March 1st, 2010

Lovingly pinched from Pitchfork: High on Fire make burly music; that’s the only thing you can really call it. The Oakland power trio’s thundering roar isn't dumb; there’s a clear technical virtuosity on display in Matt Pike’s squiddling solos, and the songs move confidently through multiple riffs and movements without ...read more

Album of the day: Jesu – Opiate Sun

Posted on Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from Pitchfork: The EP might be the ideal format for Justin Broadrick’s music, regardless of his alias. Whether he’s trying to erase your head via concrete-slab guitars in Napalm Death, reduce techno to a series of clockwork hammerblows with Final, or massage your pleasure centers with neo-shoegaze in ...read more

Dinosaur Jr’s J Mascis announces new band: Sweet Apple

Posted on Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Dinosaur Jr’s J Mascis has launched a new band, the gently named Sweet Apple. The group, featuring members of Cobra Verde and Witch, are to release their debut album on 30 March 2010 (TeePee Records).
Their formation was announced with suitably dramatic language, claiming to have “been born by accident and ...read more

Album of the day: Woods – Songs of Shame

Posted on Sunday, December 27th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from Pitchfork: Like many Woodsist Records alums– the NYC-based label has also recently issued records by Vivian Girls, Wavves, Crystal Stilts, and Sic Alps– Woods have spent much of their time together quickly earning respect and fans in underground rock circles.
Unlike those previously mentioned groups, however, they’ve done ...read more

Album of the day: Sir Richard Bishop – The Freak of Araby

Posted on Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

Lovingly pinched from Pitchfork: It can be hard to judge work by an artist when you know that they can do pretty much anything once their mind’s set. Guitarist and Sun City Girls founder Richard Bishop has a fluid and not overly nerdy mastery of a shit-ton of musical styles.
Dude ...read more

Album of the day: Amesoeurs – Amesoeurs

Posted on Monday, December 21st, 2009

Lovingly pinched from Pitchfork: Profound Lore has been knocking down the walls of black metal for a while. Label acts Caïna, Cobalt, and Wrath of the Weak alloy the genre with others, puzzling purists and delighting critics. Amesoeurs are the imprint’s greatest challenge to categorization.
This French band surveys black-clad music ...read more

Album of the day: Cave – Psychic Psummer

Posted on Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from Pitchfork: At their best, Chicago’s Cave boil down familiar but disparate branches of psychedelic rock into a sludgy yet nimble whole. Their first album approached different modes like a kid in a candy store, dipping into heavy riffs, hypnotic repetition, and howling noise, but it sprinted and ...read more

Album of the day: Nachtmystium – Assassins…

Posted on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from Pitchfork.com: Enter Nachtmystium’s brilliant fourth full-length, Assassins: Black Meddle, Part 1: The 45-minute collection’s Judd’s crowning achievement, one of the best albums released this year (2008 ). Compared even to Instinct, Assassins is an upgrade in every way– from the dense production by Minsk’s Sanford Parker at ...read more

Album of the day: Lightning Bolt – Earthly Delights

Posted on Saturday, October 24th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from Pitchfork.com: For something so simple and direct, Lightning Bolt’s music is pretty genre-straddling. Ask a fan for a description and you’ll likely hear more about what they do– play loud, fast, and insanely repetitive– than how they sound. Not so long ago “loud and fast” meant punk, ...read more