Spiritualized

Spiritualized's sixth album is strange in a beautiful way. Longtime fans will have to adjust to the new sound: front man Jason Pierce fired his ex-girlfriend and former band mates for a slicker set of musicians. Personnel shake-ups aside, the album grows on you like all the best albums do. Towering gospel choir harmonies, orchestral arrangements, and sad songs say so much.

Jason Pierce has made a career of defying expectations. After making his name as the bass
man for the great U.K. trance rockers Spacemen 3, he surprised everyone by rebounding
strong with his own band, Spiritualized. But when Spiritualized seemed to have settled into
their own pleasantly stagnant psychedelic groove, Pierce shook it all up with the 1997 epic
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