In Brief
*** Spiritualized, “Lazer Guided Melodies,” RCA. Jason Pierce, formerly of the English pre-rave tranceters Spacemen 3, surpasses that influential band with this rich, multifaceted yet coherent collection of fulfilled ideas, ranging from a techno-pop rewrite of J. J. Cale’s “They Call Me the Breeze” to calmly mesmerizing stretches of drifting-in-space feedback.
Albums are rated on a scale of one asterisk (poor) to four (excellent).
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