{"id":10790,"date":"2012-05-16T15:46:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T23:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=10790"},"modified":"2012-05-16T15:46:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T23:46:35","slug":"watch-spiritualized-via-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-05\/watch-spiritualized-via-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Spiritualized Via NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/event\/embeddedVideo.php?storyId=152291064\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>How the heck does this happen?\u00a0 It happens rarely, but every once in a blue moon we will hear a few songs from a band that don&#8217;t pass muster, and we will erroneously toss the band into the damnation dustbin, never again to be bothered with.\u00a0 And then years later, we will get smacked by a song or performance that rattles our resolve and causes us to realize the error of our eradication.<\/p>\n<p>Officially joining that list is the band <strong>Spiritualized<\/strong>.\u00a0 We were jolted recently by consistently rave critical reviews of the band&#8217;s new album <em><strong>Sweet Heart, Sweet Light<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 And so we started to look around and listen a bit, and then Ann Powers tweeted her huzzahs about the band, and it didn&#8217;t take long before we got full-tilt, full-revival-tent religion on this band.\u00a0 And now we&#8217;ve become hopelessly hooked and desperately plotting a way to get to LA next week to catch their show at the Wiltern.\u00a0 Two months ago we wouldn&#8217;t have given the time of day to this British band that&#8217;s released seven studio albums and been around for over 20 years.\u00a0 But we are willing to admit our mistakes and will write more about the band and its songs in the very near future.<\/p>\n<p>To get a feel, you can watch the 39-minute segment above from their recent concert at the 9:30 Club in DC as captured by NPR.  Or if you have less time, you can check out NPR&#8217;s just-released videos of three songs from the show.  And you can go HERE to listen to the entire concert.\u00a0 And please&#8230;get Spiritualized, would ya?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spiritualized - &quot;So Long You Pretty Thing&quot; | NPR MUSIC LIVE\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1UdVTBoo_zs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spiritualized - &quot;Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space&quot; | NPR MUSIC LIVE\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A7FEENQd6UI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spiritualized - &quot;Come Together&quot; | NPR MUSIC LIVE\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wMC0lasK0Is?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the heck does this happen?\u00a0 It happens rarely, but every once in a blue moon we will hear a few songs from a band that don&#8217;t pass muster, and we will erroneously toss the band into the damnation dustbin, never again to be bothered with.\u00a0 And then years later, we will get smacked by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}