Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space

Dieses Album ist ein anspruchsvolles Werk, das auf interessante Weise Elemente von Space Rock, Gospel und Psychedelic vereint. Die Tracks sind durchdacht und oft emotional, von verträumten, ätherischen Melodien bis hin zu kraftvollen, orchestralischen Höhepunkten.

Besonders beeindruckend ist, wie Liebe, Herzschmerz und existenzielle Themen in ein musikalisches Erlebnis verwandelt, das die Zuhörer in seinen Bann zieht. Mag mag dem Werk nachsehen, dass einige Songs zu lang sind aber beim Wiederhören wird es nicht mehr stören.

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I didn’t like this album this album much the first time I heard it.

I’ve listened to it several times since then and it’s grown on me more and more.

I think it’s a pretty good mix of ambitious and pretentious. But overall, after several listens, I find it to be a very strong album. It’s not perfect, it loses steam some in the second half until the closer, but I’ll be putting this one on again for sure.

It made me sleepy.

Never heard of this before, but I'm intrigued by the production of this.
"90s pink floyd" is pretty spot on, but some of it also reminded me of some M83, the xx, and even ok go that would come later. A great album to vibe to, spacey and chill. It grew on me the more I listened, 4* (-1 because the back half of cop shoot cop was a bit too revolution no 9 for me).

1.67

I like quirky.

What a fantastic and eclectic album! The production values on this must have been insane. It's only at the end that it was veering dangerously close to 'jarringly experimental' territory.

This is a funny album cover. I liked this album a lot. The first song is very evocative of space, and Elvis. Two of my recent interests. The title is from a nice book quote.

I learned from reading about this album that Dr. John (neutral) is not the same person as Dr. Luke (bad). Also that "space rock" is an attested genre, and related to "shoegaze", which I always wondered about. I think I'm no closer to understanding it, but I do like space rock. The album felt very cohesive to me, which in theory is the point of albums, but in practice I rarely find to be the case.

Highlights: 'Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space', 'Stay with Me', 'Electricity' (I want a mashup of this and the Schoolhouse Rock 'Electricity, Electricity'), 'Broken Heart' (very orchestral), 'Cool Waves' (very electro-gospel)

Lowlights: 'The Individual' (most of the Noises on this album were acceptable to me, but all of the unacceptable ones were here, on this track, comprised of 4 minutes straight of BLRRRRRRZZZZ squeak squeak BLRRRRRZZZ)

Damn, this is a really good album. Never listened to it before and never even heard of this band before the 1001. I previously disliked Spaceman 3 but liked Lazer Guided Melodies, Spiritualized's first album (which I gave a 4). This is just an outstanding album, but I'm glad I didn't hear it in 1997 when I was going through the aftermath of a major break-up. Songs like Stay with Me, Broken Heart, and Cool Waves would have been devastating to me at the time. Broken Heart practically took me back to those feelings, even if it's been nearly 30 years - the strings at the end were just heart-wrenching (and beautiful). The only ding I can give this album is that Jason Pierce sings like so many other Britpop singers (Oasis and The Verve immediately come to mind, and the latter is almost insulting to say, given Richard Ashcroft is the reason for Pierce's breakup). But what it has over those other bands is RANGE - the musical variety on this album is impressive - from those heart-rending break-up songs to avant-garde tracks like The Individual, No God Only Religion (Robert Wyatt vibes on this instrumental), and Cop Shoot Cop. Then there are rockers like Come Together and Electricity. I really liked how a lot of songs flowed from one to another - the structure of the album is really well thought out: the round of the intro track into the rocker Come Together transitioning into the vibe of I Think I'm in Love (which builds to a more upbeat song within itself). Stay With Me is like floating in space (hey, the name of the album!) but builds to a greater level of tension. Electricity rocks and takes you out of that zone. Home of the Brave starts with a calm vibe that builds up to the chaos of The Individual, like a bad trip getting worse (similar to Cop Shoot Cop). In fact, the whole sequence of Home of the Brave through Cop Shoot Cop is like riding a wave of depression and drugs - the only "relief" coming from the gospel chorus in Cool Waves (although the lyrics for the verses are again devastating). Finally, Cop Shoot Cop is a microcosm of the whole album. Powerful. Really impressed.

It’s an interesting one this, as parts of the album work for me and others don’t. I was hoping I might like this more than I did to be honest, as it seemed from the write up that it was well up my street. I really like the bigger soundscape moments the most, with the violins and brass and more, that stuff is great (eg. Broken Heart). And then in general I like those tracks that sound quite big, with lots going on in them.

But then there’s plenty in here that feels self-indulgent, and much of it is overlong. In general it feels pretty accomplished, but… I don’t know… lots of it also feels kind of sanitised somehow. I don’t know how to describe it. Maybe a bit surface. There’s something that’s preventing me from connecting with it on a deeper level – which feels like something an album like this would be really striving to do. There’s moments and soundscapes here that remind me of someone like Sigur Ros – but they don’t connect and resonate in the same way.

Ladies and Gentlemen I have been floating in space!

A tad long with some filler, but the good moments are very good.

another album that would benefit from trimming it by 20 minutes, decent background music though

A really fun and ecstatic listen

I've listened to the title track many times, the rest were new to me. Good mixture of sound, nothing hitting quite as hard.

Some cool instrumentation but after going through so much of this list it’s hard mot to just hear a whiny British guy singing over it.

A borderline flawless album. It perfectly mixes elements of psychedelia, shoegaze, space rock, and even soul. Lyrically dense and powerful with gorgeous and varied instrumentation.

I can't remember and I just listened to it yesterday...

Meh. Not really my type