And Nothing Hurt
From the opening lullaby of ‰ÛÏA Perfect Miracle‰ through to the Morse Code fadeout at the close of ‰ÛÏSail on Through,‰ Spiritualized wrap layer upon layer of gloriously transcendent sound together to create a mesmerizing and cinematic collection of songs. There are points where the waves of blissful noise are almost overwhelming ‰ÛÒ the thunderous climax of ‰ÛÏOn the Sunshine‰; the spectral waltz of ‰ÛÏThe Prize‰; the towering guitar solo on ‰ÛÏI‰۪m Your Man‰ ‰ÛÒ 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 ‰ÛÒ Jason Pierce, AKA J.Spaceman ‰ÛÒ in an upstairs room in his east London home. Sat in an edit suite in Whitechapel a month or so after finishing recording, Jason talks honestly about the painstaking, frustrating process of creating And Nothing Hurt. ‰ÛÏMaking this record on my own sent me more mad than anything I‰۪ve done