The six date American tour will follow a packed summer schedule for the space rock outfit which will see them play at a number of European venues along with a fair few festivals, and will see them return to a couple of venues they visited on their previous visit to North America in September of last year (namely, White Eagle Hall in Jersey City, NJ and Union Transfer in Philadelphia, PA).

The announcement came yesterday via the group’s twitter page and will no doubt excite their East coast American fans who will get to see the band again in such a short space of time.

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Spiritualized were formed in 1990 by frontman Jason Pierce (J Spaceman) following the disbanding of his previous group, Spacemen 3, after a series of fall outs with former co-frontman Peter Kember (Sonic Boom). Pierce subsequently brought with him to Spiritualized fellow Spacemen 3 members Will Carruthers, Mark Refoy and Jonny Mattock to form the new space rock outfit.

The band released its debut album, Lazer Guided Melodies, in 1992, incorporating more of a shoegaze element along with the distinctive spacey, psychedelic sound of Spacemen 3, and with their next album, Pure Phase (1995) came a slight delve into britpop, all the while maintaining a keen appetite for space rock. Their third album, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, released in 1997, became their most successful and most well-known release, peaking at number four in the UK Albums Chart and being named NME’s Album of the Year.

Listen to “Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space” below:

Spiritualized have since become space rock pioneers and have amassed a huge cult following, and have released a total of nine studio albums, the latest of which, Everything Was Beautiful, was released in April 2022 on Fat Possum Records. The group’s current lineup consists of Jason Pierce (vocals, guitar), John Coxon (guitar, keyboard), Doggen Foster (guitar), James Stelfox (bass), Kevin Bales (drums) and Tom Edwards (keyboards).

See below for the US tour dates:

06/11/2023 – White Eagle Hall – New Jersey, NJ
07/11 – Asbury Hall – Buffalo, NY
08/11 – Basilica Hudson – Hudson, NY
09/11 – Mr Smalls Theatre – Millvale, PA
11/11 – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA
12/11 – Webster Hall – New York, NY

You can purchase tour tickets from May 12th here.

Regarding the conception and construction of the sweet country-soul lament set throughout a multitude of national lockdowns, J Spaceman says, “I felt like I’d been in training for this my whole life”. Highlighting that some people suffered through the isolation periods of lockdown, Spaceman however reframed the time alone as a “beautiful solitude” leading to an almost fondness for the period. Walking through an empty “Roman London” where “even the sirens had stopped singing” and where the world was “full of birdsong and strangeness and no contrails.” These times were used by Spaceman to listen to the new work, and assess the new mixes for the upcoming album.

“Crazy” on the surface seems to be an album that doesn’t want to do much in half measures. With Spaceman playing 16 instruments across 11 different studios (and his own home) and more than 30 outside performers – including his own daughter Poppy, and long-term collaborator John Coxon – enlisted to help with the instrumentals, we can expect string sections, brass sections, choirs, bells, chimes, and maybe even some performances from other members of the band. “There was so much information on it that the slightest move would unbalance it, but going around in circles is important to me. Not like you’re spiralling out of control but you’re going around and around and on each revolution you hold onto the good each time. Sure, you get mistakes as well, but you hold on to some of those too and that’s how you kind of… achieve. Well, you get there.”

You can pre-order the album here, the artwork on the vinyl edition, designed by Mark Farrow, contains 8 pillboxes you can pop out of the sleeve revealing a gold foil underneath with Braille-embossed inserts you can build and use as you please. Spiritualized are also heading on a UK tour beginning on April 28^th at The Forum in Bath and ending at Camden’s iconic Roundhouse. See the full dates below, and find more details here.

28/4/2022 – The Forum Bath
29/4 – Corn Exchange – Cambridge
30/4 – Dome – Brighton
2/5 – Symphony Hall – Birmingham
4/5 – Sage – Gateshead
5/5 – SWG3 Galvanizers – Glasgow
7/5 – Olympia Theatre – Dublin
8/5 – Bridgewater Hall – Manchester
9/5 – Royal Concert Hall – Nottingham
10/5 – Roundhouse – London