You can never go wrong with Spiritualized, since Jason Pierce has been refining for more than 30 years an airy and epic rock without being bombastic. We see it again from Always Together With Yougrand opening piece ofEverything Was Beautiful : the rise is slow, neat, and leads quite naturally to a chorus which bursts like a fine rain of melodies dominated by female choirs.
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This perpetual movement of elevation never really leaves us with Spiritualized. Even on a more earthly track like Best Thing You Never Hadwhere, at the bottom of a wall of sound pierced with brass, emerges a rock n’ roll riff that could have been heard at the Rolling Stones.
Jason Pierce’s signature is so strong that he can make it all his own – nocturnal folk, psychedelic rock, country soul traits, shoegaze reminiscences – and still sound like himself. He transports everything beyond these aesthetics to build ample pieces, adorned with an almost…spiritual aura. Even in the most “bare” moments (crazy) or the busiest (The A Song – Laid in Your Arms).
Everything Was Beautiful does not detonate in the course of Spiritualized, whose sound universe is constantly enriched and extended without its main architect feeling the need to display radical breaks in style to give the impression of progress. To say that we know what to expect with this group does not mean that we know exactly what we will discover from one disc to another, if not melodic rock of rare elegance and capable of free from gravity. That of the earth as that of earthly things.
Spiritualized will be at the Corona Theater on September 19.
Rock
Everything Was Beautiful
Spiritualized
Fat Possum Records