Anchor ads are not supported on this page.

4S Ranch Allied Gardens Alpine Baja Balboa Park Bankers Hill Barrio Logan Bay Ho Bay Park Black Mountain Ranch Blossom Valley Bonita Bonsall Borrego Springs Boulevard Campo Cardiff-by-the-Sea Carlsbad Carmel Mountain Carmel Valley Chollas View Chula Vista City College City Heights Clairemont College Area Coronado CSU San Marcos Cuyamaca College Del Cerro Del Mar Descanso Downtown San Diego Eastlake East Village El Cajon Emerald Hills Encanto Encinitas Escondido Fallbrook Fletcher Hills Golden Hill Grant Hill Grantville Grossmont College Guatay Harbor Island Hillcrest Imperial Beach Imperial Valley Jacumba Jamacha-Lomita Jamul Julian Kearny Mesa Kensington La Jolla Lakeside La Mesa Lemon Grove Leucadia Liberty Station Lincoln Acres Lincoln Park Linda Vista Little Italy Logan Heights Mesa College Midway District MiraCosta College Miramar Miramar College Mira Mesa Mission Beach Mission Hills Mission Valley Mountain View Mount Hope Mount Laguna National City Nestor Normal Heights North Park Oak Park Ocean Beach Oceanside Old Town Otay Mesa Pacific Beach Pala Palomar College Palomar Mountain Paradise Hills Pauma Valley Pine Valley Point Loma Point Loma Nazarene Potrero Poway Rainbow Ramona Rancho Bernardo Rancho Penasquitos Rancho San Diego Rancho Santa Fe Rolando San Carlos San Marcos San Onofre Santa Ysabel Santee San Ysidro Scripps Ranch SDSU Serra Mesa Shelltown Shelter Island Sherman Heights Skyline Solana Beach Sorrento Valley Southcrest South Park Southwestern College Spring Valley Stockton Talmadge Temecula Tierrasanta Tijuana UCSD University City University Heights USD Valencia Park Valley Center Vista Warner Springs

Sweet Heart Sweet Light, by Spiritualized

With their seventh studio album, Spiritualized continue their legacy of ecstatic mourning, something divine and destructive, chaotic and focused.

The album begins with lush string arrangements and then takes a sharp shift to lead single "Hey Jane," a nine-minute garage jaunt with a jangly Velvet Underground sway. Halfway through the song, the band searches through chaotic ambiance for the next section. When the cacophony settles into the swell of emptiness, the band stumbles into something triumphant. A powerful guitar line enters as the music builds around it. When the momentum reaches its peak, Jason Pierce repeats the line "Sweet heart, sweet light, sweet heart and love of my life." This song captures many facets of Spiritualized — the bleak dissonance, the moments of hope, the endless question marks.

They attained something special on "I Am What I Am," which it owes as much to Marvin Gaye's Inner City Blues as it does to the avant-garde rock of Sonic Youth. Chains and tambourines crash with the snare, the bass line is as soulful as a Motown offering. Pierce's vocals beam with lazy confidence, and the backing vocals have a '60s R&B sass to it. The song is as comfortable with its wailing atonal saxophones as it is with its in-pocket soul.

Sponsored
Sponsored
  • Album: Sweet Heart Sweet Light
  • Artist: Spiritualized
  • Label: Double Six Records/Fat Possum Records
  • Songs: (1) Huh? (Intro) (2) Hey Jane (3) Little Girl (4) Get What You Deserve (5) Too Late (6) Heading for the Top (7) Freedom (8) I Am What I Am (9) Mary (10) Life Is a Problem (11) So Long You Pretty Things
Here's something you might be interested in.
Submit a free classified
or view all
Previous article

2024 continues to impress with yellowfin much closer to San Diego than they should be

New rockfish regulations coming this week as opener approaches
Next Article

Flowering pear trees in Kensington not that nice

Empty dirt plots in front of Ken Cinema

With their seventh studio album, Spiritualized continue their legacy of ecstatic mourning, something divine and destructive, chaotic and focused.

The album begins with lush string arrangements and then takes a sharp shift to lead single "Hey Jane," a nine-minute garage jaunt with a jangly Velvet Underground sway. Halfway through the song, the band searches through chaotic ambiance for the next section. When the cacophony settles into the swell of emptiness, the band stumbles into something triumphant. A powerful guitar line enters as the music builds around it. When the momentum reaches its peak, Jason Pierce repeats the line "Sweet heart, sweet light, sweet heart and love of my life." This song captures many facets of Spiritualized — the bleak dissonance, the moments of hope, the endless question marks.

They attained something special on "I Am What I Am," which it owes as much to Marvin Gaye's Inner City Blues as it does to the avant-garde rock of Sonic Youth. Chains and tambourines crash with the snare, the bass line is as soulful as a Motown offering. Pierce's vocals beam with lazy confidence, and the backing vocals have a '60s R&B sass to it. The song is as comfortable with its wailing atonal saxophones as it is with its in-pocket soul.

Sponsored
Sponsored
  • Album: Sweet Heart Sweet Light
  • Artist: Spiritualized
  • Label: Double Six Records/Fat Possum Records
  • Songs: (1) Huh? (Intro) (2) Hey Jane (3) Little Girl (4) Get What You Deserve (5) Too Late (6) Heading for the Top (7) Freedom (8) I Am What I Am (9) Mary (10) Life Is a Problem (11) So Long You Pretty Things
Comments
Sponsored
Here's something you might be interested in.
Submit a free classified
or view all
Previous article

Navy solves San Diego homeless crisis by retiring four locally moored ships

Decommision Accomplished
Next Article

Melissa Etheridge, The Imaginary Amazon

Events April 1-April 3, 2024
Comments
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed Big Screen — Movie commentary Blurt — Music's inside track Booze News — San Diego spirits Classical Music — Immortal beauty Classifieds — Free and easy Cover Stories — Front-page features Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts Feast! — Food & drink reviews Feature Stories — Local news & stories Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore From the Archives — Spotlight on the past Golden Dreams — Talk of the town The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it Letters — Our inbox Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news News Ticker — News & politics Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated Poetry — The old and the new Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers Reading — The hunt for intellectuals Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds SD on the QT — Almost factual news Sheep and Goats — Places of worship Special Issues — The best of Street Style — San Diego streets have style Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves Theater — On stage in San Diego this week Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads Your Week — Daily event picks
4S Ranch Allied Gardens Alpine Baja Balboa Park Bankers Hill Barrio Logan Bay Ho Bay Park Black Mountain Ranch Blossom Valley Bonita Bonsall Borrego Springs Boulevard Campo Cardiff-by-the-Sea Carlsbad Carmel Mountain Carmel Valley Chollas View Chula Vista City College City Heights Clairemont College Area Coronado CSU San Marcos Cuyamaca College Del Cerro Del Mar Descanso Downtown San Diego Eastlake East Village El Cajon Emerald Hills Encanto Encinitas Escondido Fallbrook Fletcher Hills Golden Hill Grant Hill Grantville Grossmont College Guatay Harbor Island Hillcrest Imperial Beach Imperial Valley Jacumba Jamacha-Lomita Jamul Julian Kearny Mesa Kensington La Jolla Lakeside La Mesa Lemon Grove Leucadia Liberty Station Lincoln Acres Lincoln Park Linda Vista Little Italy Logan Heights Mesa College Midway District MiraCosta College Miramar Miramar College Mira Mesa Mission Beach Mission Hills Mission Valley Mountain View Mount Hope Mount Laguna National City Nestor Normal Heights North Park Oak Park Ocean Beach Oceanside Old Town Otay Mesa Pacific Beach Pala Palomar College Palomar Mountain Paradise Hills Pauma Valley Pine Valley Point Loma Point Loma Nazarene Potrero Poway Rainbow Ramona Rancho Bernardo Rancho Penasquitos Rancho San Diego Rancho Santa Fe Rolando San Carlos San Marcos San Onofre Santa Ysabel Santee San Ysidro Scripps Ranch SDSU Serra Mesa Shelltown Shelter Island Sherman Heights Skyline Solana Beach Sorrento Valley Southcrest South Park Southwestern College Spring Valley Stockton Talmadge Temecula Tierrasanta Tijuana UCSD University City University Heights USD Valencia Park Valley Center Vista Warner Springs
Close

Anchor ads are not supported on this page.