Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Reissued to coincide with Spiritualized's live recreation of the album for ATP’s Don’t Look Back concert, ‘Ladies And Gentlemen...’ was immediately proclaimed a masterpiece on its 1997 release, scooping many album of the year plaudits at that year’s end.

Time hasn’t diminished its impact; it still stands as a hugely ambitious, and successful, work that holds its own alongside the classics of any decade. Here presented with two bonus discs containing a multitude of versions of each of the album’s songs, it provides a unique behind-the-scenes insight into those definitive versions.

Quite simply, a masterpiece then, a masterpiece now.

9/10

Words by Nick Annan