Yesterday 200 miles, today 200 bars. On Spiritualized's debut album, 1992's Lazer Guided Melodies, Jason closes an hour's worth of pain and beauty, spaced out symphonies and gliding garage rock, with 200 Bars. Over waves of organ and chiming guitars Kate counts from 1 to 100, the bars (musical) and bars (drinking) word play driven home as Jason starts singing/ whispering, 'I'm gonna lose my thoughts in 200 bars/ You know I've tried but now I'm tired/ I'm losing track of time in 200 bars'. The music comes to a stop and Kate closes things with, '200'.
In the same year, Jason's erstwhile bandmate Pete Kember, was moving on slowly as Sonic Boom/ Spectrum. Soul Kiss (Glide Divine) came out that year on translucent vinyl in a liquid sleeve. The ten songs housed in that liquid sleeve find Sonic in an even more dreamy, drifting spaced out place than Jason. Tranquil, dappled, blissed out, waves of sound.
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