Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt (LP)

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And Nothing Hurt is Spiritualized'€™s eighth album, and their first since 2012'€™s Sweet Heart, Sweet Light. From the opening lullaby of A Perfect Miracle through to the fading Morse Code at the close of Sail on Through, it painstakingly wraps layer upon layer of gloriously transcendent sound together to create a mesmerizing and cinematic collection of songs.

There are points - the thunderous climax of On the Sunshine; the spectral waltz of The Prize; the towering guitar solo on I'€™m Your Man - where the waves of blissful noise are almost overwhelming, where one can imagine the studio'€™s speakers vibrating themselves off of the walls. Which is an incredible feat when you discover that the album was conceived and recorded almost entirely by one man - Jason Pierce, AKA J.Spaceman - in an upstairs room in his east London home.

"€œMaking this record on my own sent me more mad than anything I've done before,"€ he claims. "We'€™d been playing these big shows and I really wanted to capture that sound we were making but, without the funds to do, I had to find a way to work within the constraints of what money I had. So I bought a laptop and made it all in a little room in my house."

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