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Cover of Crazy EP by Spiritualized.

Spiritualized

Crazy EP

Bella Union

    Three track 12" EP from Spiritualized with new art from Mark Farrow with two alternate mixes from the most recent album 'Everything Was Beautiful' and a cover of Junior Kimbrough 'Sad Days Lonely Nights'.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. I'm Coming Home Again (Spaceman Demo Mix)
    2. Crazy (Spaceman Demo Mix)
    3. Sad Days, Lonely Nights (Junior Kimbrough Cover)

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    Cover of Songs In A&E - 2024 Reissue by Spiritualized.

    Spiritualized

    Songs In A&E - 2024 Reissue

    Fat Possum

      Songs in A&E is a beautiful, chilling record and it was very nearly the last thing J Spaceman would ever release. In 2005, with the writing and recording well underway, Spaceman was rushed to the Royal London Infirmary with double pneumonia. The sleeve of this reissue is a photograph taken as he lay in what his close friends and family feared at the time was his deathbed.

      “We thought he’d gone,” recalled band mate John Coxon at the time. The album is collection of graceful, country-influenced songs that muse on familiar themes of love, death, hope and hopelessness. The country element was informed by a small black 1928 Gibson acoustic he’d bought in Cincinnati while the band toured the Amazing Grace record. Spaceman called it “The Devil”.

      J Spaceman: “Mostly, when you buy a guitar, like most things, you don't really have any idea of whether it's good or not. And this shop had about eight of the same models for comparison, but this one was in a cage, to keep people away from it, like they knew it was kind of special. And it's beautiful. It just sings. And it kind of came with those songs, which is obviously a sort of romantic notion, but it really felt like it did. I'd never written on a guitar until this point and it seemed to come with all of this information.”

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Harmony 1 (Mellotron)
      2. Sweet Talk
      3. Death Take Your Fiddle
      4. I Gotta Fire
      5. Soul On Fire
      6. Harmony 2 (Piano)
      7. Sitting On Fire
      8. Yeah Yeah
      9. You Lie You Cheat
      10. Harmony 3 (Voice)
      11. Baby I'm Just A Fool
      12. Don't Hold Me Close
      13. Harmony 4 (The Old Man...)
      14. The Waves Crash In
      15. Harmony 5 (Accordion)
      16. Borrowed Your Gun
      17. Harmony 6 (Glockenspiel)
      18. Goodnight Goodnight

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      Cover of Amazing Grace - 20th Anniversary Edition by Spiritualized.

      Spiritualized

      Amazing Grace - 20th Anniversary Edition

      Fat Possum

        Somewhat overlooked at the time, Amazing Grace is possibly the heaviest and most intimate Spiritualized record. A wild collection of blazing garage rock songs and beautifully tender, sometimes devastatingly sad, ballads. They are songs that reach for help from a broken place, ragged and lonely, in love with a world hanging by a thread. The feeling of the gospel standard that inspired the title – “through many dangers, toils and snares I have already come” – hangs like a shadow over the whole record, and J Spaceman’s heart and soul lies very close to the microphone.

        Absolute nihilism bleeds through the opening song “This Little Life of Mine”: “This little life of mine / I’m gonna let it slide / I’m gonna let it burn / I’m getting sick of trying.” In “The Ballad of Richie Lee”, a lament to the late Acetone singer, we have maybe the most brutally sad moment of the entire Spiritualized catalog: “He’s got his name on a rock again / And this time it’s the last”.

        Then, out of the blackest nights of the soul, beautiful hymns appear, odes to falling in love and staying in love. Songs like “Hold On”, “Oh Baby” and “Rated X” where we “Put your hand in my hand and maybe we’ll forget / That life had even started before the day we met.”

        The recording of Amazing Grace was fast and experimental, executed in three weeks at Rockfield Studios in Wales. Spaceman would present the band with an idea for each song on the day of recording, and they would experiment until it felt right. The core musicians,John Coxon, Tony Foster and Tim Lewis were players au fait with the abstract and experimental, finding the sweet spots where The Stooges meet Arvo Part, where Patsy Cline meets 13th Floor Elevators and Aretha Franklin is down with Miles Davis’ Get Up With It. The result of this method is a polar opposite to the symphonic grandeur of its predecessor Let It Come Down but more powerful in its emotional impact. 

        TRACK LISTING

        1. This Little Life Of Mine
        2. She Kissed Me (It Felt Like A Hit)
        3. Hold On
        4. Oh Baby
        5. Never Goin' Back
        6. The Power And The Glory
        7. Lord Let It Rain On Me
        8. The Ballad Of Richie Lee
        9. Cheapster
        10. Rated X
        11. Lay It Down Slow

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        Cover of Let It Come Down - 2021 Reissue by Spiritualized.

        Spiritualized

        Let It Come Down - 2021 Reissue

        Fat Possum

          Spiritualized and Fat Possum Records announce the final instalment of The Spaceman Reissue Program. The album is the fourth in this series of 180g double albums mastered by Alchemy Mastering, presented in a gatefold jacket with reworked artwork by Mark Farrow and available in both a standard black vinyl pressing and limited edition ivory-coloured vinyl.

          Let It Come Down saw Jason Pierce rebuilding Spiritualized after the core line-up dissolved following the intensive touring process of Ladies And Gentlemen... Dion’s Phil Spector-produced ‘Born To Be With You’ was an influence. The initial recordings were made at John Coxon’s studio before some 115 different musicians were brought into Air and Abbey Road Studios to work on these 11 songs. Spiritualized had always made wide-screen music but this time the movie theater was the size of the Coliseum

          TRACK LISTING

          1. On Fire
          2. Do It All Over Again
          3. Don't Just Do Something
          4. Out Of Sight
          5. The Twelve Steps
          6. The Straight And The Narrow
          7. I Didn't Mean To Hurt You
          8. Stop Your Crying
          9. Anything More
          10. Won't Get To Heave (The State I'm In)
          11. Lord Can You Hear Me

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          Cover of Pure Phase - Reissue by Spiritualized.

          Spiritualized

          Pure Phase - Reissue

          Fat Possum

            Pure Phase is the second album by Spiritualized, released on 28 March 1995. The album was recorded in the Moles Studio in Bath, England and features contributions from The Balanescu Quartet.

            At the time of release, Pierce had renamed the band as "Spiritualized Electric Mainline", the name that appears on the album cover, before reverting to the Spiritualized name shortly afterwards.

            TRACK LISTING

            1. Medication
            2. The Slide Song
            3. Electric Phase
            4. All Of My Tears
            5. These Blues
            6. Let It Flow
            7. Take Good Care Of It
            8. Born, Never Asked
            9. Electric Mainline
            10. Lay Back In The Sun
            11. Good Times
            12. Pure Phase
            13. Spread Your Wings
            14. Feel Like Goin' Home

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            Cover of Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space - 2021 Reissue by Spiritualized.

            Spiritualized

            Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space - 2021 Reissue

            Fat Possum

              Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space is the third studio album by English space rock band Spiritualized, released on 16 June 1997. The album features guest appearances from the Balanescu Quartet, The London Community Gospel Choir and Dr. John.

              Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space has since been acclaimed as one of the best albums of the 1990s on various publications' decade-end lists. Pitchfork ranked it at number 55 on their list of the top 100 albums of the 1990s. In 2010, the album was also named one of the 125 Best Albums of the Past 25 Years by Spin

              TRACK LISTING

              1. Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
              2. Come Together
              3. I Think I'm In Love
              4. All Of My Thoughts
              5. Stay With Me
              6. Electricity
              7. Home Of The Brave
              8. The Individual
              9. Broken Heart
              10. No God Only Religion
              11. Cool Waves
              12. Cop Shoot Cop...

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              Cover of Lazer Guided Melodies - Reissue by Spiritualized.

              Spiritualized

              Lazer Guided Melodies - Reissue

              Fat Possum

                The first four Spiritualized records are the sound of J Spaceman finding his way through the cosmos; bumping into debris, soaring over stars, crash landing onto bleak, lonely landscapes then taking off again, sometimes spinning around uncontrollably until he finds somewhere sublime that he can rest his head for a while, until the restless soul takes flight again.

                Elevating the gritty, narcotic garage blues of his first band Spacemen 3 into more of a crystalline experimental space rock, pop sound, the Lazer Guided Melodies core line up was Jason (vocals, guitar), Mark Refoy (guitars), Kate Radley (keyboards), Will Carruthers (bass) and Jonny Mattock (drums). Recorded from 1990 to 1991, the 12 songs are divided up into four movements.

                Jason: ‘The last Spacemen 3 record was under-realized to me. When I listen back to that stuff it sounds like somebody finding their way. There was a lot of ideas but no way to put them into a space that would make them all work. So, there was a huge freedom forging over the last Spacemen 3 record and when Spiritualized started it was like, ‘Ok it’s all yours. Go.’

                I was living in Rugby in a flat above a plumber’s merchant at the time. I accidentally kept that flat for eight years when I moved to London and when I returned it was exactly how I left it. There was the Nick Kent book open at the page I left it like it was waiting for my return.

                We recorded the tracks in the studio near my flat which was a place where they predominantly recorded advertising jingles and it’s where we made all the Spacemen 3 records, but then the recordings were taken to Battery Studios in London, to explore a more professional way of making music, the world outside.

                We got it down onto a Fostex E16; like a half inch of tape and we squeezed 16 tracks onto it. It was almost like recording on a cassette tape but then we introduced those multi tracks to a new kind of mix scenario, new to me anyway.

                Once I approached that way of doing things I opened up a whole world and I was astounded that somebody could take those tracks and turn it into the record it became. Barry Clempson mixed it and his references were completely outside my world. He was playing stuff like Massive Attack, the Horace Andy track with that beautiful tremolo voice, and Rain Tree Crow, very precise and clear productions. But he brought this clarity and definition to it that I could not have done in Rugby. I didn’t know how to make records that sounded like that. It turned out absolutely beautiful.”


                TRACK LISTING

                1. You Know It's True
                2. If I Were With Her Now
                3. I Want You
                4. Run
                5. Smiles
                6. Step Into The Breeze
                7. Symphony Space
                8. Take Your Time
                9. Shine A Light
                10. Angel Sigh
                11. Sway
                12. Bars

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                Cover of Sweet Heart Sweet Light by Spiritualized.

                Spiritualized

                Sweet Heart Sweet Light

                Double Six

                  “When you make a record, it has to be the single most important thing in your world. This time around, I wanted to do something that encompassed all I love in rock ‘n roll music. It’s got everything from Brotzmann and Berry right through to Dennis and Brian Wilson. I’m obsessed with music and the way you put it together and I don’t believe there are any rules.” - J. Spaceman.

                  Recorded during the past two years, in Wales, LA and Reykjavik, and mixed in his own home, 'Sweet Heart Sweet Light' will be Spiritualized’s seventh studio album. The last was a concert album recorded at Radio City Music Hall, where Spiritualized rendered the ’97 game changer 'Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space' in full.

                  STAFF COMMENTS

                  Andy says: If you were feeling as weary as Jason Pierce occasionally sounds, on what is basically his seventh solo LP, then you may be forgiven for thinking... oh here we go again: death, drugs, destruction and Jesus!? That is, if his usual lyrical world wasn't married to his best collection of songs since the almighty "Ladies and Gentleman" LP of 1997. Apparently it was the revisiting and touring of that record, in 2009, coupled with a serious liver ailment that made Jason decide that anything he now put out would have to reach those standards. Yes he's wracked with pain (and this is genuine; his voice is now so cracked, weak even, soulful!) but there's glory and majesty in the music. "Little Girl" and "Too Late" would be massive radio hits in an alternative universe, whilst "So Long You Pretty Things" is , for me, the greatest thing he's ever done.

                  TRACK LISTING

                  01. Huh? (Intro)
                  02. Hey Jane
                  03. Little Girl
                  04. Get What You Deserve
                  05. Too Late
                  06. Headin' For The Top Now
                  07. Freedom
                  08. I Am What I Am
                  09. Mary
                  10. Life Is A Problem
                  11. So Long You Pretty Things

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