Life in the So‐Called Space Age by God Lives Underwater

Life in the So-Called Space Age, released March 24, 1998 on A&M, was the second album from God Lives Underwater, the Pennsylvania electronic rock band built around singer and programmer David Reilly and Jeff Turzo, with Andrew McGee on guitar. It came after Empty and a stint on Rick Rubin's American Recordings.

The sound is a chilly, pulse-driven collision of programmed beats, keyboards and distorted guitar, melodic under the machinery. Even the title nods to synth-pop: it's lifted from the back cover of Depeche Mode's Black Celebration, and the sleeve shows domed skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur. "From Your Mouth" became the band's biggest single and later turned up in the 2000 film Gossip. Reilly died in 2005 at 34, which gives the record's sleek, anxious sheen a sadder echo now.

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