A Spiritualized Season: Hey Jane
The unveiling of new material by a favourite act is always a gut-wrenching affair, completely different in form and function to accidentally stumbling across a record by a band previously never heard – even if this newly discovered triggers jets of steam to erupt from the ears. With the favourite act, the grooves of anticipation are fractured and not necessarily easy to traverse, the mechanics of trepidation at play; will this be as strong, as evocative, as fucking stunning as the rest of the canon? It’s a little like meeting an old flame for a casual drink after years of separation – for however hard you try to act nonplussed, however honest any degree of nonchalance may be, the background question always lingers – will there still be a spark?
Spiritualized / Hey Jane
Isn’t that the truth….. and, usually, the spark is almost always elusive, on at least one-side of the equation anyway.
Oh, I can safely assure you that the new Magnetic Fields album is stunning. I’ve not played anything else but this album in the last 72 hrs.
Jeezo, I do so love the internet and its leaking ways…. (but, I will purchase a legit copy when the time comes, promise!)
I should of course point put that leaky internets are bad, and that you can listen to the gorgeous Magnetic Fields album and all it’s electronic subterfuge here – prior to purchase, likesae:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/feb/27/magnetic-fields-love-bottom-sea