697 Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies (1992)

 697 Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies (1992)

Studio Album - Spacerock



About the Act:

Started 1990, still going. Space Rock/Neo-Psychedelia/Shoegaze. English. Led by Jason Pierce, who used to be a Spaceman. 8 Studio albums so far.

About the Album:

This was their first album.

My History with this Album:

None

Review:

Let's start with the album title. So, "Lazer Guided" is OK. "Melodies" is quite misleading. This is what the album is almost devoid of.

Instead there are textures, mostly kind of full and washy, long, evolving simple chord sequences, reminiscent of Krautrock and similar textual music. It's almost ambient, but unlike what I would normally think of as ambient, it is neither quiet and tinkly nor dancy-beaty. 

There are vocals, they are so shoogazy and quiet that mostly you can't hear them, and what I could hear was OK, but not particularly engaging, although to be fair this was definitely the minority of the words. The vocals are, to be fair, really just part of the overall textures.

So that's about it for description. Actually, I quite liked it. They were nice textures, and there was some particularly nice bass-work. I found it pleasant to listen to.

This is the second Spiritualized album I have reviewed. I had a look back at the other one, and it got 9/10, but that was because it was much better than this album. This one is OK.

7/10 


Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0kfT6lwFmXyepSvoItP4sa

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL186mAqNp-o3izQqpnqF1IIHmTRF_bZGt

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazer_Guided_Melodies



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