{"product_id":"spiritualized-lazer-guided-melodies","title":"Spiritualized - Lazer guided melodies","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"Content_description-wrapper__XbO9z\" data-is-open=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"Content_inner-wrapper__xBJ2L\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"Description_truncated-text__yUXZD\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"Description_descriptionBody__bEN2t\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"Description_descriptionText__Lgv7A\" data-testid=\"description-product\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first four \u003cem\u003eSpiritualized\u003c\/em\u003e records are the sound of \u003cstrong\u003eJ Spaceman\u003c\/strong\u003e finding his way through the cosmos; bumping into debris, soaring over stars, crash landing onto bleak, lonely landscapes then taking off again, sometimes spinning around uncontrollably until he finds somewhere sublime that he can rest his head for a while, until the restless soul takes flight again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElevating the gritty, narcotic garage blues of his first band \u003cem\u003eSpacemen 3\u003c\/em\u003e into more of a crystalline experimental space rock, pop sound, the \u003cem\u003eLazer Guided Melodies\u003c\/em\u003e core line up was \u003cstrong\u003eJason\u003c\/strong\u003e (vocals, guitar), \u003cstrong\u003eMark Refoy\u003c\/strong\u003e (guitars), \u003cstrong\u003eKate Radley\u003c\/strong\u003e (keyboards), \u003cstrong\u003eWill Carruthers\u003c\/strong\u003e (bass) and \u003cstrong\u003eJonny Mattock\u003c\/strong\u003e (drums).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecorded from 1990 to 1991, the 12 songs are divided up into four movements. \u003cstrong\u003eJason\u003c\/strong\u003e says, ‘The last \u003cem\u003eSpacemen 3\u003c\/em\u003e record was under-realized to me. When I listen back to that stuff it sounds like somebody finding their way. There was a lot of ideas but no way to put them into a space that would make them all work. So, there was a huge freedom forging over the last \u003cem\u003eSpacemen 3\u003c\/em\u003e record and when \u003cem\u003eSpiritualized\u003c\/em\u003e started it was like, ‘Ok it’s all yours. Go.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI was living in Rugby in a flat above a plumber’s merchant at the time. I accidentally kept that flat for eight years when I moved to London and when I returned it was exactly how I left it. There was the \u003cem\u003eNick Kent\u003c\/em\u003e book open at the page I left it like it was waiting for my return. We recorded the tracks in the studio near my flat which was a place where they predominantly recorded advertising jingles and it’s where we made all the \u003cem\u003eSpacemen 3\u003c\/em\u003e records, but then the recordings were taken to Battery Studios in London, to explore a more professional way of making music, the world outside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe got it down onto a Fostex E16; like a half inch of tape and we squeezed 16 tracks onto it. It was almost like recording on a cassette tape but then we introduced those multi tracks to a new kind of mix scenario, new to me anyway. Once I approached that way of doing things I opened up a whole world and I was astounded that somebody could take those tracks and turn it into the record it became. Barry Clempson mixed it and his references were completely outside my world. He was playing stuff like \u003cem\u003eMassive Attack\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eHorace Andy\u003c\/em\u003e track with that beautiful tremolo voice, and \u003cem\u003eRain Tree Crow\u003c\/em\u003e, very precise and clear productions. But he brought this clarity and definition to it that I could not have done in Rugby. I didn’t know how to make records that sounded like that. It turned out absolutely beautiful.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Fat Possum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56820911866239,"sku":"FP17511","price":32.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0286\/2825\/4773\/files\/Spiritualized-Lazer-guided-melodies.webp?v=1769165189","url":"https:\/\/vinilo.co.uk\/products\/spiritualized-lazer-guided-melodies","provider":"Vinilo Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}