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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 - And Nothing Hurt - White Vinyl - UK - vinyl LP - £24.99, $32.24, €29.74 (New Item) (arrived 18-Jun-2024 08:54)on July 27, 2024 at 12:39 am
SPIRITUALIZED And Nothing Hurt (2018 UK Limited Indie Exclusive Edition 9-track LP pressed on White Vinyl - From the opening lullaby of 'A Perfect Miracle' through to the fading Morse Code at the close of 'Sail On Through', Spiritualized's eighth studio album painstakingly wraps layer upon layer of gloriously transcendent sound together to create a mesmerizing and cinematic collection of songs. With hightlights including the thunderous climax of 'On The Sunshine', the spectral waltz of 'The Prize' and the towering guitar solo on the single 'I'm Your Man'. Stickered gatefold picture sleeve [with the tracklisting printed in morse code on the back] with lyric inner with download sticker. The sleeve shows only light shelfwear and the vinyl is in Near Mint condition. BELLAVI800HZ)
- Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful - Sealed - UK - vinyl LP - Promo - £39.99, $51.59, €47.59 (Back In Stock) (arrived 06-Jun-2024 07:51)on July 27, 2024 at 12:39 am
SPIRITUALIZED Everything Was Beautiful(2022 UK 7-track vinyl LP of their ninth studio album which contains influences from psychedelic music, gospel music, and classic rock, including the singles Always Together With You, Crazy and The Mainline Song. Hype stickered and textured picture sleeve with download card. Factory sealed and unplayed BELLA127OV)
- Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful - Sealed - UK - vinyl LP - Promo - £39.99, $51.59, €47.59 (New Item) (arrived 04-Jun-2024 09:50)on July 27, 2024 at 12:39 am
SPIRITUALIZED Everything Was Beautiful(2022 UK 7-track vinyl LP of their ninth studio album which contains influences from psychedelic music, gospel music, and classic rock, including the singles Always Together With You, Crazy and The Mainline Song. Hype stickered and textured picture sleeve with download card. Factory sealed and unplayed BELLA127OV)
- Spiritualized - Fucked Up Inside - UK - vinyl LP - Promo - £175.00, $225.75, €208.25 (New Item) (arrived 29-Mar-2024 08:20)on July 27, 2024 at 12:39 am
SPIRITUALIZED Fucked Up Inside (Rare 1993 UK limited edition mail-order only 7-track LP, embossed picture sleeve. Both sleeve and vinyl presented in 'Excellent' condition DEDLP008)
- Spiritualized - Medication - UK - 12" vinyl - £20.00, $25.80, €23.80 (Back In Stock) (arrived 29-Feb-2024 08:25)on July 27, 2024 at 12:39 am
SPIRITUALIZED Medication (1992 UK Dedicated label 3-track 12" vinyl single, also including Peel Session versions of Angel Sigh and Feel So Sad, picture sleeve. The sleeve shows some light edgewear, whilst the vinyl is Excellent with the odd light sign of play SPIRT005T)
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