Spiritualized: Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Stephen Dalton, Uncut, June 1997
SPIRITUALIZED albums, like the Hale-Bopp comet, swoop in from the heavens at highly irregular intervals. Their opiated drones and over-reaching pretensions are usually greeted with similarly hysterical fanfares, then just as quickly confined to the memories of specialist devotees.
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