Review: It's hard not to feel that the first time you heard Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space it was a lightbulb moment - one of those life, or at least music-affirming experiences that's hard to come back from. Not the first Spiritualized album, but certainly the most critically acclaimed at the time, and arguably still to this day, it confirmed the Warwickshire band had arrived at the highest level of chart-friendly artistry. That point when a band realise they can do what they want, and it resonates with both niche and mainstream ears. Everything Was Beautiful arrived 25 years later, and emphasised that point. Yes, we're talking about a group that reached full maturity some time ago, rather than a troupe of rising enigmas pushing rock 'n' roll in new directions. Nevertheless, the way in which we are invited back into their world is captivating. Tracks that rouse, inspire, and feel utterly timeless. As a record, this is an exhilarating ride from start to finish, almost seeming to distill all that has come before into one intoxicating brew. Here in a limited Spanish pressing, grab it while you can.
Review: Originally intended as a second companion disc to the And Nothing Hurt album in 2018, Everything Was Beautiful became its own beast and now marks the latest step on for Jason Pierce's long and winding travels as Spiritualized. Pierce took the bits and pieces from that intended bonus disc and developed an album which has become one of the band's most emotive, engrossing works in recent times, perhaps responding to the universal changes the world has gone through in the past few years. It's still very much the band you've loved since the 90s, but there's a sense of space and maturity in the songwriting which seems set to lodge this as one of the classics in Spiritualized's mammoth oeuvre.
Review: Watch out for the upcoming Spiritualized album - aka. Jonathan Meades' musical journey through poor self-confidence, narcissism and doubt. In his words, contained and condensed into the sonic foundries of this album are all the attributes of your bog-standard musician: "paranoia, vanity, egoism, selfishness, sycophancy, resentment, moral nullity and more idiot than idiot savant". This LP comes as a standard black vinyl edition, as well as a premium pink vinyl edition; the latter contains a pillbox in the sleeve, revealing a strange Braille-embossed figurine - or "little thing" - as a keepsake.
B-STOCK: Sleeve damaged but otherwise in excellent condition
Review: ***B-STOCK: Sleeve damaged but otherwise in excellent condition***
Deluxe pink vinyl edition of Spiritualized's latest album, their most 'live' sounding project since 1998. Resultant from band brain J Spaceman walking around an empty 'Roman London' - "full of birdsong and strangeness" - the project that emerged arrives full of melancholy, loss and lyrical silver linings. Backed by Spiritualized's classic 'spacey' sound but full of that unparalleled 2022 production polish, we're stoked for this exclusive version of the album, produced between 11 studios and 30 different musicians, of all things.
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