Originally performed live for a special film screening in London’s Barbican back in 2015, “Music For William Eggleston’s Stranded In Canton” was composed by Spiritualized leader J Spaceman and his sometime bandmate and guitarist John Coxon. A drugged-up, narcotic cosmic blues marvel that takes its time to unfurl and reach its conclusions, their score now receives a physical release almost a decade later.
“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.
The Fat Angel Sings 