One of the more novel releases coming out on Record Store Day (4/19) is the Space Project compilation. As explained when we shared Youth Lagoon’s buzzing “Worms,” the collection features songs that incorporate sounds taken from Voyager space probes. In its most expansive form, the release comes in a box set with sev...

A host of artists have incorporated sounds recorded on space probes for a special Record Store Day release    

As Cut Copy dish out their series of remixes for “Free Your Mind” you can tell it’s a smart choice to include Spiritualized. “Free Your Mind,” both the song and the full album, is a glitzy and colorful rush and adding in J. Spaceman’s distorted come-down provides a welcome change from a...

The very, very good Sweet Heart Sweet Light, the most recent Spritualized album, is more than a year old now. And it’s also been more than a year since the band teamed up with the great video director AG Rojas for the intense, visceral “Hey Jane” video. But Spiritualized have once again enlisted the services [...]

A writer friend of mine recently gave me some advice: One of the hardest stories to sell is one about a consistently excellent band releasing another strong album. It’s not a comeback, it’s not a severe stylistic left turn, it’s just an artist continuing to refine their sound after many years in the game, and [...]