8.3
Avg Score
8
Opinions
#1,068
All Time
1
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“Spiritualized reach glorious new heights with Everything Was Beautiful”
“To follow Jason Pierce through an album’s length of psychic exploration requires a level of acceptance that things may look different once you re-enter your own tangible reality. There is no amount of pre-flight orientation that will prepare you for the Fantastic Voyage-style plunge you will take in his best work with Spiritualized. These expeditions through the chemically altered corridors of his”
“A gorgeous (arguably greater) companion to And Nothing Hurt.”
“You get the sense that Spiritualized’s Jason Pierce is actively signposting his latest album’s charms. Everything Was Beautiful’s medication-style packaging echoes that of the band’s 1997 classic, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, as does the female voice that announces the record (then: former band member Kate Radley, now: Pierce’s daughter Poppy); the astronaut’s eye-view of human f”
“You’ve gotta hand it to Jason Pierce: he is a master of sonics. Throughout Spiritualized’s 30-odd-year existence, he’s consistently fused psychedelia with gospel, free jazz, rock’n’roll, heartbreak blues and country, pushing the envelope with each album even to the brink of madness on his last outing, 2018’s entirely self-recorded ‘And Nothing Hurt’, which NME described as “lush space-pop”. It’s a”
“J Spaceman’s latest opus is gloriously satisfying and self-referential, refining his orchestral space rock with alchemical power.”
