Tom Jones Heads For His First UK No 1 in Two Decades
Sir Tom Jones is on course for his first UK Number 1 album in two decades with Surrounded By Time.
Tom’s 41st studio album leads today’s Official Chart Update (April 26), racking up the most CD and download sales over the past weekend.
Surrounded By Time is on track to become Sir Tom’s fourth UK Number 1 album, and first chart-topper in over two decades, since Reload hit the top in October 1999. That album went on to claim two further weeks at Number 1 in 2000.
John Lennon occupies the runner-up slot at the halfway stage of the chart week with the 50th anniversary edition of first solo album Plastic Ono Band. Originally topping out at Number 8 in 1971, the collection is heading for a new peak of Number 2.
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On their debut, Spiritualized seemed to emerge from the ether perfectly realized, creating rock music that was serene, spaced-out, and untroubled.
Spiritualizedâs debut album, released a short time after the band had floated free from Spacemen 3, is a record both in thrall to rockânâroll tradition and ambivalent about rockâs foundations in heaviness and grit. While rockânâroll is a corporeal movement, the sound of bodies moving in time,
Lazer Guided Melodiesâwhich is being reissued on 180-gram vinylâfeels almost weightless, an astral take on the blues that seems to drift by on cosmic winds. Itâs one of the most gentle rock records of its time, with spaced-out guitars and rolling bass lines tenderly nudging Jason Pierceâs vocal melodies along like a weathered stone rolling slowly down a hill.
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Jason Pierce and co’s first album reappears
by Kieron TylerSunday, 25 April 2021
Spiritualized at the time of Lazer Guided Melodies , with Jason Pierce on the rightColin Bell
Lazer Guided Melodies was great. It still is. Spiritualized’s debut album built from what was already there in Jason Pierce’s previous band Spacemen 3 and took it into newer, more textured territory. While softer-focussed and more dynamic than Spacemen 3 there was still an edge, a brittle carapace which ensured Spiritualized was its own thing.
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