Lazer Guided Melodies, the gorgeous debut album from space-rock pioneers Spiritualized, gets a well-deserved reissue. As unflashy and traditional as the packaging looks it still reminds me of the floating ghosts that inhabit each song, and I imagine those centerpieces to be Jason Pierce and Kate Radley as their relationship is the album’s central focus. [...]

I’ll give this to Jason Pierce – if he wanted to record an album that sounds like something recorded by someone coming off of a near death experience, he nailed it and then some. In turns weary, desperate and weakly celebratory, Songs in A & E is a remarkable documentary of Pierce’s experiences from the [...]