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Music : Lazer Guided Melodies
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- A seminal masterpiece
It is common parlance to go along with the time-honoured myth that the greatest of all English rock composers and songsmiths emerged from the the 1960s culminating in arguably their greates works in the latter half of the decade. I am thinking of people like Ray Davies, Steve Marriot and Ronnie Lane. Whilst these songwriters and musicians have their moments of undoubted greatness,nobody can come close to the genius that is Jason Pierce.
Lazer Guided Melodies is simply one of the greatest pieces of music to have ever emerged from this country. It's genius lies in the fact that it skillfully combines free-form jazz, plaintiff melodies and songwriting craftsmanship utilizing a variety of percussion and strings. Songs flow almost seamlessly from one to the other. This is as close to beauty personified as you are going to get.
It is a record that will stand the test of time and provide the catalyst for many an imitator. This is a modern day masterpiece that only The Beta Bands "The Three Eps" manages to surpass in terms of creativity and innovation.
Rating: - There is a light that will never go out
Ex “Melody Maker” scribe and renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds once described Jason Pearce, along with Bobby Gillespie as one of rock music’s scholars. Someone who can transcend their influences and record collection and renew rather than replicate. Essentially it’s a poncey way of saying they are more than mere copyists. Then he started blathering on about how a band like Spiritualized were infused with Apollonian attitudes ( Airiness, radiance serenity) rather than traditional Dionysian rock conventions and my head started to hurt. He was, as usual correct though, and nowhere is this better represented on what is by the length of any winged ankle their finest album.
It’s a brilliant album title as well as it encapsulates so very well what the music within is like-suffuse with light and with each track hitting a singular groove, eschewing linear expansion and recalling great Kraut bands like Kraftwerk and Neu who specialised in a free way form of rock known as “Motorik” .
With sly irony there is a track called “Run” which is propelled by a scalding fuzz-riff yet still leaves trails of sparkling iridescence in its wake. “If I Were With Her Now’s knee stepping bass line wouldn’t be out of place on some funked up floor filler but the fizzing repeated one chord note takes it somewhere else altogether. As do the multi -layered vocals that permeate the songs glorious honey dazed climax. ”Step Into The Breeze” highlights the bands increasing utilisation of strings and brass and segues into “Symphony Space”, all orchestral resonance and aching ebb and flow. “You know it’s True” suggests the heat of some impassioned lover is fluttering this music along as does “I Want You” whose guitars and consumptive tenderness point to a blurred edge of desperation. This is so good it hurts. “Angel Sigh” does the old ambient drift elliptical thing before exploding into euphoric redemptive elation .Wraithlike brass and out of phase vocals pretty much repeat the formula on “200 bars” which suggests that out of all the universal forces perhaps heat, medicine ,love and music are the greatest. A chiming note of optimism then.
There is no doubt that music is a universal language that crosses boundaries like nothing else. It bleeds across race, creed and culture and can take the listener somewhere else in the blink of an eye. “Lazer Guided Melodies” like all truly great music does this so effortlessly it’s breathtaking and seems to suggest that the power of music and love combined can burst us, glowing with tumultuous radiance, onto a higher plain of existence. Hippy tosh maybe, but while this album is playing you will believe. Ride the light and break on through.
Rating: - Jason Pierce will never better this.
I think if i could only listen to 1 album ever again in my life it would probably be this 1.
From start to finish it's flawless in quality of songs,musicianship and production.Jason's indolent,soporific vocals(especially sexy on "Take Your Time");Willie Carruthers(great name!)awesome bass playing-the basslines on this album are something to behold;the excellent,and underrated Mark Refoy.
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The flow and structure of this album is beautiful.No fillers and not patchy like the dissapointing "Pure Phase".
For me, this is Spiritualized at their peak, and best line-up.
It is something of a lost classic, which can be said of another great album from the early 90's,"Scenes From The Second Storey" by The God Machine.
Rating: - Beautiful
I haven't listened to this album in nigh on ten years. Hearing it again was a near religious experience. A cut above a lot of the 'alternative/indie' tosh produced at the time.. Simply beautiful.
Rating: - brilliant all round
first time i heard this, i was laying on a couch, and just dreamt of floating around in space. so chilled out. it's just perfect.
- A seminal masterpieceIt is common parlance to go along with the time-honoured myth that the greatest of all English rock composers and songsmiths emerged from the the 1960s culminating in arguably their greates works in the latter half of the decade. I am thinking of people like Ray Davies, Steve Marriot and Ronnie Lane. Whilst these songwriters and musicians have their moments of undoubted greatness,nobody can come close to the genius that is Jason Pierce.
Lazer Guided Melodies is simply one of the greatest pieces of music to have ever emerged from this country. It's genius lies in the fact that it skillfully combines free-form jazz, plaintiff melodies and songwriting craftsmanship utilizing a variety of percussion and strings. Songs flow almost seamlessly from one to the other. This is as close to beauty personified as you are going to get.
It is a record that will stand the test of time and provide the catalyst for many an imitator. This is a modern day masterpiece that only The Beta Bands "The Three Eps" manages to surpass in terms of creativity and innovation.
Rating:
- There is a light that will never go outEx “Melody Maker” scribe and renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds once described Jason Pearce, along with Bobby Gillespie as one of rock music’s scholars. Someone who can transcend their influences and record collection and renew rather than replicate. Essentially it’s a poncey way of saying they are more than mere copyists. Then he started blathering on about how a band like Spiritualized were infused with Apollonian attitudes ( Airiness, radiance serenity) rather than traditional Dionysian rock conventions and my head started to hurt. He was, as usual correct though, and nowhere is this better represented on what is by the length of any winged ankle their finest album.
It’s a brilliant album title as well as it encapsulates so very well what the music within is like-suffuse with light and with each track hitting a singular groove, eschewing linear expansion and recalling great Kraut bands like Kraftwerk and Neu who specialised in a free way form of rock known as “Motorik” .
With sly irony there is a track called “Run” which is propelled by a scalding fuzz-riff yet still leaves trails of sparkling iridescence in its wake. “If I Were With Her Now’s knee stepping bass line wouldn’t be out of place on some funked up floor filler but the fizzing repeated one chord note takes it somewhere else altogether. As do the multi -layered vocals that permeate the songs glorious honey dazed climax. ”Step Into The Breeze” highlights the bands increasing utilisation of strings and brass and segues into “Symphony Space”, all orchestral resonance and aching ebb and flow. “You know it’s True” suggests the heat of some impassioned lover is fluttering this music along as does “I Want You” whose guitars and consumptive tenderness point to a blurred edge of desperation. This is so good it hurts. “Angel Sigh” does the old ambient drift elliptical thing before exploding into euphoric redemptive elation .Wraithlike brass and out of phase vocals pretty much repeat the formula on “200 bars” which suggests that out of all the universal forces perhaps heat, medicine ,love and music are the greatest. A chiming note of optimism then.
There is no doubt that music is a universal language that crosses boundaries like nothing else. It bleeds across race, creed and culture and can take the listener somewhere else in the blink of an eye. “Lazer Guided Melodies” like all truly great music does this so effortlessly it’s breathtaking and seems to suggest that the power of music and love combined can burst us, glowing with tumultuous radiance, onto a higher plain of existence. Hippy tosh maybe, but while this album is playing you will believe. Ride the light and break on through.
Rating:
- Jason Pierce will never better this.I think if i could only listen to 1 album ever again in my life it would probably be this 1.
From start to finish it's flawless in quality of songs,musicianship and production.Jason's indolent,soporific vocals(especially sexy on "Take Your Time");Willie Carruthers(great name!)awesome bass playing-the basslines on this album are something to behold;the excellent,and underrated Mark Refoy.
..
The flow and structure of this album is beautiful.No fillers and not patchy like the dissapointing "Pure Phase".
For me, this is Spiritualized at their peak, and best line-up.
It is something of a lost classic, which can be said of another great album from the early 90's,"Scenes From The Second Storey" by The God Machine.
Rating:
- BeautifulI haven't listened to this album in nigh on ten years. Hearing it again was a near religious experience. A cut above a lot of the 'alternative/indie' tosh produced at the time.. Simply beautiful.
Rating:
- brilliant all roundfirst time i heard this, i was laying on a couch, and just dreamt of floating around in space. so chilled out. it's just perfect.