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spiritualized "mississippi space program" always forgetting with you (the bridge song) 2014 sound recordings from the voyager space probe were used to create this.
Always Forgetting With You (The Bridge Song)
"okay this ought to be 35 minutes long... i could listen to this forever..."
filed under: yes! and also, s p a a a a c e !
Listen: Spiritualized - "Always Forgetting With You (The Bridge Song)”
Artist: Spiritualized "Mississippi Space Program" Track: Always Forgetting With You (The Bridge Song) Album: Space Project Release Date: 19.04.14 Label: Lefse
By Spanaros
"Always Forgetting With You (The Bridge Song)" by Spiritualized
DV:
Spiritualized will forever be one of my favorite bands - Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space has been my second favorite album of all time for approaching a decade now, and I will never miss a SPZ show when they come to Chicago. But as with most artists who've been around for over two decades (and in this case, an artist who established key components of his sound back in 1984 with "Walking with Jesus"), there's been a sense recently that J. Spaceman has been consolidating where he used to push himself forward. Songs in A&E and Sweet Heart Sweet Light are albums I still return to, but they're refinements to SPZ's pre-established template, rather than the progression exhibited by the group's first four albums. They're perfect examples of the type of album critics like to describe as "classic [Band Name]": records that remind you of the sounds and themes that made you fall in love with an artist in the first place, records that are comfortable and instantly familiar.
The most surprising thing Spaceman did in recent years was his "Acoustic Mainline" tour back in 2007. Coming from someone who once released a live album featuring around 20 performers, then overdubbed it with studio parts to "fix" the sound, touring with just a guitarist, strings, and backup singers seemed positively spartan, an experiment in something new. And while the approach bled into a studio recording or two, mostly it seemed like a one-off.
This is a long way of saying I didn't realize what'd been missing from Spiritualized until I heard "Always Forgetting With You." There's a genuine electricity here, the same sort of thing that makes Spaceman's remix of Yoko Ono's "Walking on Thin Ice" transcendent. It's a sense that he's stepping out of his solipsistic, perfectionist chamber, taking on a project that wouldn't naturally be a Spiritualized project, and being energized by the result. The samples from the Voyager space probe add an element of controlled chaos to the track, the finger snaps, chimes, and sampled backing vocals are a welcome new sound for SPZ, and the climax feels so earned there might as well be fireworks exploding behind it. It's transcendent as only Spiritualized can be, and it's transcendent in a way they haven't been for much too long. If we're lucky this time, it won't just be a diversion.
MG:
"If you want a universe, I will be a universe for you," and then, a drone squall. J. Spaceman is one of the top three most feeling people alive, when his chemistry combines with the deprivation of life he's capable of unleashing a numbing global drift like "Always Forgetting With You." After his death brush (the inciting action for 2008's Songs in A&E), Spaceman, whether in happy or sad mode, seemed too grateful to be alive to dance with the muse. Space Project, a compilation of songs using samples of Voyager I and II and inspired by different celestial bodies, seems like it might already be somewhere in Spiritualized dense back catalog. Instead it's the impetus for Spaceman's blissed out love song. He's recently confined himself to songs that don't require a week spent in an overdub lab to convey the shape and expanse of their existence. "Always Forgetting" is a song that isn't written or composed or played or recorded, it's sculpted until it's all the things Spaceman has promised.
