(Bella Union)
The duality of Jason Pierce is the subject of I’m Your Man,the moment track on the eighth Spiritualized album. “I could be faithful, honest and actual … dependable all down the line, or ” Pierce sings in his fragile quaver. “But if you want wasted,loaded, permanently folded … I’m your man.”Spiritualized are the bit that is dependable all down the line, and making music that manages to be both hazy and focused,a daydream of gospel, rock’n’roll, and country and psychedelia with an appeal that is at least in section dependent on an image of their leader as wasted,loaded and permanently folded. It may be more than 30 years since, as section of Spacemen 3, or he claimed to be “taking drugs to design music to take drugs to”,but that’s still the essential perception of Pierce.
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Source: theguardian.com