Ladies and Gentlemen we are floating in space

Certain Songs #2419: Spiritualized – “Electricity”

August 12, 2022 by Jim Connelly

Album: Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
Year: 1997

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So far, I’ve been writing about the slower — or at best, mid-tempo — Spiritualized songs. And for good reason: on their first two albums, that was all they really had.

That all changed with “Electricity,” an absolutely crazed raver that sits smack dab in the middle of Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space , guaranteed to wake up anybody who might have started drifting away on the drugs the album packaging invited you to take.

Certain Songs #2418: Spiritualized – “I Think I’m In Love”

August 11, 2022 by Jim Connelly

Album: Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
Year: 1997

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This is where I came in. I’m pretty that while I’d heard Spacemen 3 at some point in the 80s, Spiritualized didn’t really cross my radar until the massive critical acclaim for Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space was so overwhelming, I needed to check it out.

And while I would fall short of calling it a masterpiece, it’s where Jason Pierce well and truly added the gospel that had been lurking around the edges of the first two records, a psychedelic gospel rock stew that could be utterly transcendent, like on the too-short-at-8:10 “I Think I’m In Love,” a gorgeous roar of a fucked up song.