Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-01-01 rating:
The title track is the one.
When he wrote and recorded the first track on this album, Jason Pierce was touched by genius. It is stunningly beautiful and is the best thing he has ever written. The rest of the album is great but the title track is the one.

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review by: Joe date: 2007-12-05 rating:
Float In Space/Drift In Time
Before I bought this, I thought, this can't be that amazing, but you know what? It bloody is. The songs soar and fly like birds. In fact birds is the best way I can describe these songs, be they world-weary, exhausted birds (Home Of The Brave), young, energised birds (Electricity), old, dying birds (Broken Heart) or mysterious and stern birds (Cop Shoot Cop...). Its one of the best art-rock records of all time. In fact, screw that, its one of the best records of all time.

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review by: Richard Beevers date: 2007-10-25 rating:
One Of The Greatest Albums Ever Made
You won't find a better album to listen to than this. It is simply magnificant. I have the original that came out in the tablet form with the intructions inside. If you can find it buy it. If not then buy the updated version you won't be displeased I assure you!!!

...you'll feel like your soul has been stretched somehow....one mind-blowing perspective-fusing supernova of an album....that redefines notions of bittersweet and love-hate to the point where everyday emotions seem very small indeed.
Melody Maker (06/14/1997)

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review by: Nowhere Man date: 2006-07-07 rating:
Spellbinding, Truly The Work Of A Visionary
Lower the lights, get in your favourite chair and turn up the volume; you're in for a sonic treat. You really will feel like you are floating in space. I fell in love with this album on my very first listen, just 4 days ago, and I've listened to nothing else since. There aren't words to describe the beauty of this music. The perfect tone and pitch of Pierce's voice, the light, feathery touches of the piano, the swing of the brass and harmonica, the sweeping strings and the truly magnificent choirs. I really cannot find the words to tell you how this album makes me feel. And as if the imagery of the music wasn't enough, there are the stark lyrics of naked emotion. "All I want in life's a little bit of love to take the pain away". Perfect, says what it means. I was sold on the very first track; the overlapping vocal lines, the electric piano setting the mood in the background, building with layer upon layer until the brass thunders in from nowhere, sweeping you up and leaving the ground behind you. Buy it.

Note: The reviewers who claimed not to like the soundscapes on this album would probably have a stroke if they ever heard Radiohead's "Kid A".


review by: date: 2006-04-16 rating:
Cool waves run over me
Recently rediscovered this album after listening to it a lot in 97/98. Better than I remembered it - life isn't usually like this!

It takes you through absolute highs from the spacey 'Cool Waves' to base lows of stringed fantismo 'Broken Heart' (which is my at-the-moment favourite song - listened to it about 15 times in the last 3 weeks).

The eponymous opening track just builds and builds like a 20th century pachalbel's canon (in fact I think it must be based on it) and the lyric is beautiful. The whole album is great and I enjoy each song individually and together. It is really clever and textual music with many layers - sometimes I hate it when music is too clever but not in this case!

The influences are diverse (classical, blues, gospel)and you hear something new every time that you listen to it.

Can you tell that I really like it?

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