Slipstream is more grounded in conventional rock and pop than one might assume from the presence of
Spiritualized players, but this isn't a terrible thing -- the band lends a spacy feel to more organic forms, and winds up sounding something like
Mojave 3 might have if they'd retained the dreamier feels of Slowdive's Pygmalion ("Harmony"), or, more obviously, the way
Spiritualized might sound as a pop band ("Riverside"). A few misfires do, however, occur -- most notably an uninspired cover of
Kraftwerk's "Computer Love" -- and the combined weight of several small bad steps probably puts Spectrum at the top of the
Spiritualized-related-bands genre.