from the LP Lazer Guided Melodies, Dedicated Records, 1992True to its name, this track categorically glistens like the sun dancing atop some crystal blue alpine lake, reflections splayed across the sky like the memories of dreams, the waves of guitar and organ caressing your skin and warming your soul like the rays from some cosmic supernova; honestly, I would expect nothing less from Jason Pierce, the man who brought us Spacemen 3 (if you’ve never heard them, the very title of their album Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To gives you some idea). Where his former band had made the manipulation of dissonance & distortion the basic goal, burying melodies deep in the mix or not at all, Mr. Pirce’s work as Spiritualized actually gives us some catchy and even memorable harmonies---though the fuzz is never far away, like some Soma’s washed down with Champagne…
