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Spiritualized: Urban Spaced Man

David Stubbs, Uncut, October 2001

ON LET IT Come Down, the latest and greatest Spiritualized album, Jason Pierce utilises some 100 musicians, among them choristers, gospel singers and entire brass and string sections. It's not exactly what Sid died for, and even Pierce was taken aback at his own sheer Wagnerian excess.

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