Name: Amazing Grace
Brand: Spiritualized

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

FP18271

Colour

Black

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Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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180 Gram Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve.&nbsp;Remastered for Vinyl in London by Engineer Matt Colton.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2024-01-19

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

The Orchard

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0767981182711

Total Cap

Black LP

FP18272

0767981182728

Artist

Spiritualized

Genre GB

Psychedelic

Label GB

Fat Possum

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Spiritualized is a British space rock band that was founded in 1990 in Rugby, Warwickshire. Led by Jason Pierce, the band has always featured a rotating cast of supporting musicians.
With their unique blend of psychedelic and experimental sounds, Spiritualized has captivated audiences worldwide. Their music takes listeners on a cosmic journey, exploring themes of love, spirituality, and transcendence.
Known for their mesmerizing live performances and critically acclaimed albums such as "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space," Spiritualized continues to push boundaries and redefine the genre of space rock.

Fat Possum Records is a label that was established in 1991 with the sole purpose of recording R.L. Burnside. Over time, it evolved into a mission to discover and record the last remaining original bluesmen before they passed away. Despite facing various challenges such as difficult personalities, limited songs, and a raw sound that didn't fit the mainstream blues market, these artists possessed immense talent and truly lived the blues.

In recent years, Fat Possum has expanded its catalog to include newer indie blues rock bands alongside their traditional offerings.

Spiritualized and Fat Possum Records reissue Amazing Grace as part of the second volume of The Spaceman Reissue Program: Curated by J Spaceman. Somewhat overlooked at the time, Amazing Grace is possibly the heaviest and most intimate Spiritualized record. A wild collection of blazing garage rock songs and beautifully tender, sometimes devastatingly sad, ballads. They are songs that reach for help from a broken place, ragged and lonely, in love with a world hanging by a thread. The feeling of the gospel standard that inspired the title – “through many dangers, toils and snares I have already come” – hangs like a shadow over the whole record, and J Spaceman’s heart and soul lies very close to the microphone.Absolute nihilism bleeds through the opening song “This Little Life of Mine”: “This little life of mine / I’m gonna let it slide / I’m gonna let it burn / I’m getting sick of trying.” In “The Ballad of Richie Lee”, a lament to the late Acetone singer, we have maybe the most brutally sad moment of the entire Spiritualized catalog: “He’s got his name on a rock again / And this time it’s the last”.

Then, out of the blackest nights of the soul, beautiful hymns appear, odes to falling in love and staying in love. Songs like “Hold On”, “Oh Baby” and “Rated X” where we “Put your hand in my hand and maybe we’ll forget / That life had even started before the day we met.”

The recording of Amazing Grace was fast and experimental, executed in three weeks at Rockfield Studios in Wales. Spaceman would present the band with an idea for each song on the day of recording, and they would experiment until it felt right. The core musicians, John Coxon, Tony Foster and Tim Lewis were players au fait with the abstract and experimental, finding the sweet spots where The Stooges meet Arvo Part, where Patsy Cline meets 13th Floor Elevators and Aretha Franklin is down with Miles Davis’ Get Up With It. The result of this method is a polar opposite to the symphonic grandeur of its predecessor Let It Come Down but more powerful in its emotional impact.&nbsp;

Amazing Grace

Music GB

Discover Amazing Grace by Spiritualized on vinyl. Reissued by Fat Possum Records as part of The Spaceman Reissue Program. A collection of intense garage rock and tender ballads.