SPIRITUALIZED Schallplatten & CDs

Review: Watch out for the upcoming Spiritualized album - aka. Jonathan Meades' musical journey through poor self-confidence, narcissism and doubt. In his words, contained and condensed into the sonic foundries of this album are all the attributes of your bog-standard musician: "paranoia, vanity, egoism, selfishness, sycophancy, resentment, moral nullity and more idiot than idiot savant". This LP comes as a standard black vinyl edition, as well as a premium pink vinyl edition; the latter contains a pillbox in the sleeve, revealing a strange Braille-embossed figurine - or "little thing" - as a keepsake.

Review: Originally intended as a second companion disc to the And Nothing Hurt album in 2018, Everything Was Beautiful became its own beast and now marks the latest step on for Jason Pierce's long and winding travels as Spiritualized. Pierce took the bits and pieces from that intended bonus disc and developed an album which has become one of the band's most emotive, engrossing works in recent times, perhaps responding to the universal changes the world has gone through in the past few years. It's still very much the band you've loved since the 90s, but there's a sense of space and maturity in the songwriting which seems set to lodge this as one of the classics in Spiritualized's mammoth oeuvre.