The duo's best album to date finds them adding shoegaze noise and dream pop atmosphere to their predictably emotional and melodic electronic pop sound.
Members of Spiritualized play a live score to a 1974 film, complementing the movie's intense characters and dialogue with cosmic psychedelic blues vamps.
This album, released 25 years ago today, ends up as a showcase for their eclecticism, tailoring productions to their collaborators and creating a colorful universe where classicist rap, turntablism, trip-hop, and electronica all get along comfortably. Parts of the album are surprisingly atmospheric, and rely more on the texture of the sound than the star power of the guest -- which makes sense for a producer's album. - Steve Huey