How the heck does this happen?  It happens rarely, but every once in a blue moon we will hear a few songs from a band that don’t pass muster, and we will erroneously toss the band into the damnation dustbin, never again to be bothered with.  And then years later, we will get smacked by a song or performance that rattles our resolve and causes us to realize the error of our eradication.

Officially joining that list is the band Spiritualized.  We were jolted recently by consistently rave critical reviews of the band’s new album Sweet Heart, Sweet Light.  And so we started to look around and listen a bit, and then Ann Powers tweeted her huzzahs about the band, and it didn’t take long before we got full-tilt, full-revival-tent religion on this band.  And now we’ve become hopelessly hooked and desperately plotting a way to get to LA next week to catch their show at the Wiltern.  Two months ago we wouldn’t have given the time of day to this British band that’s released seven studio albums and been around for over 20 years.  But we are willing to admit our mistakes and will write more about the band and its songs in the very near future.

To get a feel, you can watch the 39-minute segment above from their recent concert at the 9:30 Club in DC as captured by NPR. Or if you have less time, you can check out NPR’s just-released videos of three songs from the show. And you can go HERE to listen to the entire concert.  And please…get Spiritualized, would ya?