
From Loudersound.
Spiritualized will release an updated version of their fourth album, Let It Come Down, via Fat Possum on October 22. It’s the final instalment of the Spaceman Reissue Program, which has seen the band’s first four albums remastered on vinyl with new artwork.
As with the previous three records, Let It Come Down is presented in a gatefold jacket with reworked cover art by Mark Farrow. There’s also a limited edition ivory vinyl exclusive to D2C and independent record stores.
Let It Come Down saw bandleader 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 theatre was the size of the Coliseum.
Commenting on the album today Pierce recalls, “It all fell apart a little bit during this period. With Ladies & Gentlemen we had everything. We had Kate on keyboards, John on guitar, Damon [Reece] and Sean [Cook] on drums and bass and everything seemed to find its space in a beautiful way and then that fell apart. It just wasn’t there any more – the politics of being in a band. So, I was trying to build something out of that.
“I recorded demos for these tracks at John’s studio again. And it was just putting all these parts together, writing for instruments I’d never written for before, the basslines, the flutes and the French horns and I’d never done that. Changing instruments around so I would try the bass playing the flute parts or vice versa. So when it came to actually making the record it was like ‘well, all we need to do now is replicate those on the real instruments’ which is kind of what we did; an amazing time at Air Studios where we pulled in every instrument under the sun. Bass strings, bass clarinets, 10 trombones. And I remember talking to Dr John again and he said: ‘Nobody ever stopped to say how many you should have in a section?’ because there is no 10 trombones. There is no section like that.”
He adds: “It’s a funny record to me because in a way it’s so conventional but it’s got some of our most sublime moments. A lot of people say Ladies & Gentlemen is where it happened because it’s when they first got aboard, found out about this band. But people who got into it through Let It Come Down are as passionate about that album and then moved backwards to find the stuff that came before it. Some of it had ideas that didn’t quite hit but when it does hit, it’s way beyond where I thought it was gonna go; it’s got these extraordinary parts that I don’t think I could get anywhere near again.
“We were the best band when we ran at ‘we can’t really fucking afford this but let’s do it anyway’. I still think that if it’s gonna fail, it’s gotta fail big. And that’s okay. I still feel like that.”
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- Spiritualized - Medication - Red Vinyl - UK - 7" vinyl - £15.00, $18.75, €17.55 (New Item) (arrived 11-May-2022 10:06)on May 25, 2022 at 10:59 pm
SPIRITUALIZED Medication (1992 UK limited edition 2-track RED VINYL 7" single, also including Smiles recorded and mixed on the 7th January 1992 at the BBC Studios in Maida Vale, picture sleeve SPIRT005)
- Spiritualized - Pure Phase - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £125.00, $156.25, €146.25 (New Item) (arrived 10-May-2022 09:34)on May 25, 2022 at 10:59 pm
SPIRITUALIZED Pure Phase (Scarce 1995 UK 13-track double vinyl LP, includes Let It Flow & Electric Mainline, picture sleeve + inners. The picture sleeve shows minimal wear and the vinyl is in Near Mint condition! DEDLP017)
- Spiritualized - Let It Come Down - UK - CD album - £3.99, $4.99, €4.67 (Back In Stock) (arrived 30-Mar-2022 16:52)on May 25, 2022 at 10:59 pm
SPIRITUALIZED Let It Come Down (2001 Spaceman Record UK 11-track CD album including the single Stop Your Crying. With original stickered picture sleeve OPM001CD)
- Spiritualized - Fucked Up Inside - 180gm - Sealed - UK - vinyl LP - £35.00, $43.75, €40.95 (Back In Stock) (arrived 26-Nov-2021 09:08)on May 25, 2022 at 10:59 pm
SPIRITUALIZED Fucked Up Inside (2018 UK limited edition Record Store Day Audiophile issue of the 1993 7-track LP recorded live in California in November 1992 & pressed on 180gm vinyl, silver embossed picture sleeve. This copy has remained factory sealed from new in the original custom stickered shrink & is therefore still mint & unplayed REDUXLP009)
- Spiritualized - Pure Phase - Bakelite Pack - UK - CD album - £12.00, $15.00, €14.04 (New Item) (arrived 25-Nov-2021 17:01)on May 25, 2022 at 10:59 pm
SPIRITUALIZED Pure Phase (1995 UK special limited edition 14-track CD - the second album from the British space-rock band, housed in a custom silver embossed & luminous plastic box with sliding lid & insert. A fantastic glow in the dark edition DEDCD017S)
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