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“One More Voyage With Spiritualized”

Spiritualized’s first album in six years, And Nothing Hurt, is landing on multiple year-end lists. It’s worth revisiting the record’s arduous production process, as the band’s founder and perfectionist-in-chief recorded and sculpted most of the massive thing in his bedroom with a laptop. He details the journey and talks about the strange reality of making rock ’n’ roll records in your 50s in this intimate Stereogum portrait. Spiritualized plays Big Ears 2019.

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BIG EARS
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Knoxville, TN · USA

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