Spiritualized-The Individual

Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space is the third studio album by Spiritualized, released in June 1997, and features guest appearances from the Balanescu Quartet, The London Community Gospel Choir and Dr. John. The title of the album is taken from the philosophical novel Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder, the context being: “Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others cling on desperately and yell at the people nestling deep in the snug softness, stuffing themselves with delicious food and drink. ’Ladies and Gentlemen,’ they yell, ’we are floating in space!’ But none of the people down there care.“[3][4] The album itself was written shortly after the breakup of Spiritualized’s Jason Pierce and Kate Radley, the band’s keyboard player. Radley had secretly married Richard Ashcroft of The Verve in 1995.[5][6] Original pressings had an alternative versio