Spiritualized

Amazing Grace visits a simplified, revitalized sound that Jason Pierce hasn't touched since the Spacemen 3 days. Dirty guitar leads are mixed way up high, and you can hear Pierce's voice strain like he means it. All throughout, ruminations on heartache and hope find new life in the group's stripped-down gospel soul.

British psychedelicist Jason Pierce, or J. Spaceman, as he prefers to be called, began his
career in 1983 as part of Spacemen 3 and has been insisting ever since that drugs and
wah-wah pedals are way cool. Amazing Grace is more of the same: droning guitars,
walkie-talkie vocals and pseudoredemptive song titles such as "Lord Let It Rain on Me."
True, "Oh Baby," borne aloft by heavenly choirs and bells (possibly tubular), cou... More >