Six years in the making, And Nothing Hurt, the eighth album by Spiritualized, is instantly recognizable for its trademark meld of garage rock, pillowy psychedelia, gospel, R&B, and blues via guitars, strings, horns, keyboards, and a stellar backing chorus in intimate, vulnerable, confessional songs.
Since the early '90s (earlier if you count Spacemen 3), Jason Pierce has cultivated a lush production palette and songwriting style that often involves dozens of musicians in big-budget recording studios.
This date follows that M.O.
with a caveat: It was largely recorded on a laptop alone in his bedroom.
Pierce began these sessions as a series of demos with Youth.
Unhappy with the result, he scrapped almost everything to begin again, but faced a logistics problem: Most of his money had been spent.
Necessity being the mother of invention, he bought a laptop and undertook the painstaking process of learning to use Pro Tools.
His budget was so miniscule, the record's requisite string orchestra was assembled from sampled bits off classical recordings.
After finishing basic tracks, he hired players for instruments he couldn’t play, including timpani, horns, and upright bass, as well as the vocal chorus.
He cut their parts in professional studios.
Despite this, And Nothing Hurt (titled after the epitaph of Billy Pilgrim, the hero of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse Five), fits Spiritualized's aesthetic perfectly.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Perfect MiracleJ. Spaceman | Spiritualized | Play | 04:46 | 10 MB | 0 MB |
| 2 | I'm Your ManJ. Spaceman | Spiritualized | Play | 04:28 | 10 MB | 0 MB |
| 3 | Here It Comes (The Road) Let's GoJ. Spaceman | Spiritualized | Play | 04:41 | 10 MB | 0 MB |
| 4 | Let's DanceJ. Spaceman | Spiritualized | Play | 05:11 | 11 MB | 0 MB |
| 5 | On the SunshineJ. Spaceman | Spiritualized | Play | 05:00 | 11 MB | 0 MB |
| 6 | DamagedJ. Spaceman | Spiritualized | Play | 04:57 | 11 MB | 0 MB |
| 7 | The Morning AfterJ. Spaceman | Spiritualized | Play | 07:42 | 17 MB | 0 MB |
| 8 | The PrizeJ. Spaceman | Spiritualized | Play | 05:24 | 12 MB | 0 MB |
| 9 | Sail on ThroughJ. Spaceman | Spiritualized | Play | 05:58 | 13 MB | 0 MB |
| 48 mins | 110 MB | |||||
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| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jonny Aitken | Drums |
| 2 | Iggy B | Engineer |
| 3 | Scott Baylis | Roland Synthesizer |
| 4 | Oli Bayston | Engineer |
| 5 | Kevin Brown | Saxophone |
| 6 | Travis Cole | Vocals |
| 7 | John Coxon | Guitar (Electric), Photography |
| 8 | Kevin Cunningham | Trumpet |
| 9 | Aaron Cupples | Engineer |
| 10 | Christina Dunlap | Photography |
| 11 | Tom Edwards | Glockenspiel, Percussion, Timpani, Vibraphone |
| 12 | Tony Foster | Harmonica, Lap Steel Guitar |
| 13 | Rich Good | Photography |
| 14 | Josh Green | Assistant Engineer |
| 15 | Micha Hering | Engineer |
| 16 | Lee Horsley | Farfisa Organ, Fender Rhodes, Hammond B3, Piano, Vox Continental |
| 17 | Alex Lamey | Horn, Strings |
| 18 | Adam Langston | Horn, Strings |
| 19 | Juliette Larthe | Photography |
| 20 | Darren Lawson | Engineer, Mixing |
| 21 | Tom Leach | Assistant Engineer, Engineer |
| 22 | Steve Mackey | Mixing, Producer |
| 23 | Guy Massey | Engineer |
| 24 | Ben McCluskey | Assistant Engineer |
| 25 | Armelle Pignon | Assistant Engineer |
| 26 | Max Prior | Assistant Engineer |
| 27 | Emre Ramazanoglu | Engineer |
| 28 | Dave Richmond | Bass, Bowed Double Bass |
| 29 | Wendi Rose | Vocals |
| 30 | Shuta Shinoda | Engineer |
| 31 | J. Spaceman | Bass, Composer, Glockenspiel, Harmonica, Mixing, Producer |
| 32 | Spiritualized | Primary Artist |
| 33 | David Stanley | Engineer |
| 34 | James Stelfox | Bass, Fender Jazz Bass, Guitar (Bass) |
| 35 | Noel Summerville | Mastering Engineer |
| 36 | Daniel Thomas | Vocals |
| 37 | Travis Waddell | Photography |
| 38 | Jim Walker | Violin |
| 39 | Alan Wilkinson | Saxophone |
| 40 | Lena Wright | Vocals |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |