Hearing the neo-psychedelic gospel guitar freak-outs of Spiritualized® in a club sweating and expanding and contracting with acolytes put the songs in an entirely new context. It was grandiose. It was touching. It was a spectacle built on little more than a minimalist light show and a collection of incredibly powerful songs. more ›

Jason Pierce -- a.k.a. J Spaceman -- is adept at taking great washes of guitar and funneling them through an otherworldly filter to create a kind of secular gospel music to lose your mind to. His vehicle for doing so for almost two decades has been through the space rock psyche-out albums created under the Spiritualized® moniker. more ›