From Brian Gause Sent Wed, Nov 19th 1997, 22:06
From Brian Gause Sent Wed, Nov 19th 1997, 22:06
> For example, yesterday at NYC's Abstrakt (an experimental/hard d&b club > I guess) I was handed a flyer for the band Spiritualized. The flyer's > graphic design and language (and of course the venue where I got the > flyer) suggest that the band might be kinda IDM or something. In fact, > much of Spiritualized's marketing campaign of late has suggested such... I > recently heard their album "Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space" > (which by the way has dope package design) and boy was I duped. This stuff > is straight up Oasis wannabe crapola (IMHO, of course) and has little to > no IDM appeal. Just a warning: Beware Britpop in IDM clothing. > Oh, I don't know about this. Spiritualized has never been Britpop. In fact, they've been doing experimental stuff for years (way back when they were still Spaceman3). They're not IDM, but they've never professed to be. They're definitely experimental, though, and very ambient (especially live)...it's still guitars, but that's what they do. I disagree that it has little to no IDM appeal, too. Most of us here listen to stuff outside the genre (if it is, indeed, only one genre) and many of us like to listen to people who are doing interesting things, whether that be with guitars, sitars or juice-harps. They're a band that, in the past (as I must admit, I haven't listened to the latest album) have qualified in this respect. You may be right, cos I've not heard the new album, but they're neither IDM nor Britpop the last time I checked. ---brian