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''Lazer Guided Melodies'' is the first album by the British space rock group Spiritualized. The album was recorded by the inaugural line up of the band, consisting of Jason Pierce (vocals, guitars), Mark Refoy (guitars), Will Carruthers (bass), Jonny Mattock (drums) and Kate Radley (keyboards) from 1990 to 1991, and mixed by Pierce in London in January 1992. The album was first released on Dedicated Records in March 1992, on cassette, Compact Disc and Vinyl (2 x LP, with initial copies containing an additional free 7"). Initially released on two 45rpm vinyl LPs, the album's twelve songs are segued together into four colour coded (red, green, blue, black), cross-faded suites. As such, the album was included in Pitchfork Media's 2010 list of "ten unusual CD-era gimmicks".〔http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7856-a-feature-about-nothing-the-1990s-in-lists/4/〕 ''Lazer Guided Melodies'' is unique in Jason Pierce's oeuvre as it simultaneously explores motorik, minimalist music, and space rock while subtly using "meticulously detailed, layered instrumentation, the sumptuous deployment of horns and strings" to create cinematic, textured, and deeply narcotic soundscapes.〔"Pierce De Resistance" ''NME'' March 1992〕 As critic Simon Reynolds observed in his ''Melody Maker'' review ''The 'Ized Of March'': "Spiritualized's music quivers with Apollonian attributes - airiness, fleetness, radiance, serenity...at times, Spiritualized recall the Kraut version of freeway rock known as ''motorik'', in particular Neu..."Run" is all about the exhilaration of cutting loose, of goalless propulsion..."If I Were With Her Now" is throbbing ''motorik'' too...swathed by scintillating guitar chimes like the world whooshing by...along with motion, Spiritualized's other consummate metaphor for release is ascension... ==Track listing== #"You Know It's True / If I Were with Her Now / I Want You" - 13:12 (Red) #"Run / Smiles / Step into the Breeze / Symphony Space" - 14:45 (Green) #"Take Your Time / Shine a Light" - 14:09 (Blue) #"Angel Sigh / Sway / 200 Bars" - 18:54 (Black) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lazer Guided Melodies」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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