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Spacemen 3 to Spiritualized

Jason Pierce is as much a survivor as he is a visionary. From his time in the influential yet self-destructive Spacemen 3 with his one-time friend Pete “Sonic Boom” Kember, to the last 18 years as the driving force and only permanent member of the gospel-leaning space rock force that is Spiritualized, the man they call Spaceman — whose lyrics time and again consist of love, death, redemption, rock’n’roll, and of course, spirituality — has experienced everything he sings about first hand. And that includes death. Twice. After being stricken with near-fatal double pneumonia in 2005, Pierce made what can only be described as a miraculous comeback. While it was enough trauma to force any artist into retirement, Jason used his brush with death as inspiration for the sixth Spiritualized album, the self-explanatory Songs in A & E. His best work in 11 years, the album is not only the document of his survival but also the digest of all his musical styles to date, encapsulated with the interstellar flourishes J Spaceman has built his songbook around. Ladies and gentlemen, let’s float into space…

The past:







The present:

Garden Transformation

In Rainbows

"How come I end up where I started
How come I end up where I went wrong
Won't take my eyes off the ball again
You reel me out when and you cut the string."

15 Steps



Available at time of writing purely as a download; though a cd, 2 x vinyl record plus extra disc of rarities will be available at start of December (all packaged in a box and retailing at £40.) The download costs as much as you see fit to pay for it.

The music is stylistically in a similar groove to that found on Kid A and Amnesiac. We open with the machine beats of 15 steps sounding like Idioteque Mk 2 and that sense of unease and anxiety shows all is still unwell in Radiohead's world.

"Videotape" has already spawned a rather fine mix available here
and the Roy Budd nods on "All I need" send the mind heading towards train journeys into the heart of something unpalatable.

Top Ten outside UK and Ireland

Young Galaxy - The Alchemy between us
Bjork - Volta
Thurston Moore - Trees outside the Academy
The Changes - Today is Tonight
The Stars - In Our bedroom after the war
Little Dragon -Little Dragon
Asobi Seksu - Citrus
Serena Maneesh - Serena Maneesh
Ulrich Schnauss - Goodbye
Trentemoller - The Last Resort

Anthony H Wilson

Joy Division, The Wendys, Railway Children, Happy Mondays, Cath Carrol, New Order, Revenge, Electronic, Northside, Durutti Column, The Wake, James, Steve Martland


Tony Wilson 1950-2007