Let It Come Down Spiritualized

“…Pierce’s achievement is to rehabilitate rock grandiosity. He wades in with the kind of 100-piece orchestra rightly shunned by rockers since Deep Purple, throwing in his soul, the kitchen sink and the microwave too. The result is an enormous construction of fractured, life-affirming beauty. Although the minimalist blueprints of his former band Spacemen 3 are here, Pierce has also been absorbing Isaac Hayes’s soul symphonies and Elvis’s Vegas period while taking notice of classic songwriters such as Jimmy Webb. The Straight and Narrow could even be a rejuvenated Brian Wilson cackling away at the grand piano. Awesome and bold.” - The Guardian