“Sweet Talk” by Spiritualized on Songs in A&E.

Spiritualized is Jay Spaceman of the Spacemen 3, a band which sort of sparked the minimalist psychadelica sound that would eventually evolve into shoegaze. This album Songs in A&E is not a reference to keys, but a reference to the Accidents & Emergencies ward of the hospital. Between 2003 and 2008 Jay nearly died of double pneumonia, and the songs were written before during and after this health battle.

This album was one of my absolute favorites of 2008, and this is me trying to make sure it didn’t slip under anyone’s radar.