Monday, February 25, 2008

30 Century man


Spiritualized's Songs in A&E press release:
After much anticipation, and a longer than expected wait, Spiritualized are set to release their long-awaited 18 track sixth studio album, ‘SONGS IN A&E’, on Spaceman Records on May 26th. The US release will be announced this week.
Track listing:
1. Harmony 1
2. Sweet Talk
3. Death Take Your Fiddle
4. I Gotta Fire
5. Soul on Fire
6. Harmony 2
7. Sitting on Fire
8. Yeah Yeah
9. You Lie You Cheat
10. Harmony 3
11. Baby I'm Just a Fool
12. Don't Hold Me Close
13. Harmony 4
14. The Waves Crash In
15. Harmony 5
16. Borrowed Your Gun
17. Harmony 6
18. Goodnight Goodnight
The album will be preceded by the single, “Soul On Fire”, available on 7in vinyl and digital on May 19th.
Since the release of the last studio album, ‘Amazing Grace’, there followed a lengthy period of touring but this was unfortunately curtailed by a serious illness which struck main man Jason Pierce in 2005. Time spent in intensive care interrupted the writing and recording of the follow up record both prior to, and after his illness. Inevitably perhaps, this setback turned into an inspiration…
The band will be touring with the full line up and additional gospel singers in May followed by extensive touring around the world including shows at Benicassim in Spain, Summer Sonic in Japan and extensive tours & festivals in the UK, Europe and USA.
The Spaceman adds, “Also this year, Harmony Korine's truly beautiful "Mister Lonely" film is released to cinema with an OST to follow on Drag City Records. It was an honour and trip to work on that one and probably one of the things that was most instrumental in me finally finishing the Spiritualized album so we all got Harmony to thank for that one.”
Following the completion of the A&E recording sessions there was a period of label uncertainty in 2007 so Spiritualized presented their acclaimed Acoustic Mainlines live show, during which they previewed ‘acoustic’ versions of new & old material, at many and various festivals and revered venues, including the legendary Apollo Theatre in Harlem, NY.
Acoustic Mainlines will play their last few shows at the i-Tunes festival on March 2nd at Air studios and a handful of US west coast shows including the Coachella Festival in April.


oystered 03: Spiritualized Acoustic Mainlines Salford Lowry, Manchester, UK 11/24/06


+ denotes bonus track taken from Union Chapel, London, UK 12/9/07
SITTING ON FIRE
DEVIL TOWN
LORD LET IT RAIN ON ME
TRUE LOVE WILL FIND YOU
STRAIGHT AND THE NARROW
COOL WAVES
HOLD ON
AMEN
SOUL ON FIRE
WALKING WITH JESUS
GOING DOWN SLOW
SO HOT
STOP YOUR CRYING
ANYTHING MORE
LADIES & GENTLEMEN
LAY IT DOWN SLOW
BABY I’M JUST A FOOL
THINK I'M IN LOVE +
GOODNIGHT, GOODNIGHT
FUNERAL HOME
LORD CAN YOU HEAR ME
OH HAPPY DAY

“Devil Town,” “True Love Will Find You” and “Funeral Home” are covers of Daniel Johnston originals. Enjoy!

2 comments:

max power said...

Ok, I know TRUE LOVE WILL FIND YOU isn't a Sonic/Spectrum original, but isn't it kinda weird for J-Spaceman to cover this too???

david said...

Yes, yes it is, max power.