Any new music from the Spiritualized camp is guaranteed to prick up our ears, and while these recordings may have been made ten years ago, they're brand spanking new to us. Recorded at London's Barbican as a live soundtrack to William Eggleston's "raw, greasy, Quaalude-y and hot" snapshot of Miami street life in 1974, Stranded In Canton finds Spiritualized’s J Spaceman and John Coxon in mesmeric form. - Flying Out
Spiritualized’s J Spaceman and John Coxon have announced Music for William Eggleston’s Stranded in Canton, an instrumental score of Eggleston’s 1970s art film, out October 18th via Fat Possum.
In 2015, Spaceman, Coxon, and friends performed a new original score live at a special film screening at the Barbican Gallery in London. The recording sat on a shelf for 10 years, and will finally be unveiled through this release.
Stranded in Canton is a black-and-white film portrait of Memphis in 1974, shot in bars and on street corners, showing Eggleston’s friends carousing, playing music and firing pistols into the night sky. It is raw, greasy, Quaalude-y and hot. Jagged and intimate, the film is a handheld window into a different world; "Hogarth on Beale Street” as writer Richard Williams describes it in the album’s liner notes.
Tracklist:
1. I was stranded in Canton
2. Last week I took a trip
3. It's not gospel
4. What train blues
5. I don't know what I can possibly do
6. Mother's milk
7. Back Up William
8. Everybody in their life at one time or another
9. Love for the asking
10. Credits roll
