Spiritualized to Reissue Their First Four Albums on Vinyl

Spiritualized have announced the reissue of their first four albums on vinyl via Fat Possum as part of the Spacemen Reissue Program curated by Spiritualized frontman Jason Pierce. The first installment, 1992’s Lazer Guided Melodies, is due out April 23.

Albums in the series will be pressed on 180g 2xLPs mastered from “a half speed lacquer cut from original sources by Alchemy Mastering,” according to a press release. Of the reissues, Pierce said: 

The last Spacemen 3 record was under-realized to me. When I listen back to that stuff it sounds like somebody finding their way. There was a lot of ideas but no way to put them into a space that would make them all work. So, there was a huge freedom forging over the last Spacemen 3 record and when Spiritualized started it was like, “OK it’s all yours. Go”…

We recorded the tracks in the studio near my flat which was a place where they predominantly recorded advertising jingles and it’s where we made all the Spacemen 3 records, but then the recordings were taken to Battery Studios in London, to explore a more professional way of making music…. Once I approached that way of doing things I opened up a whole world and I was astounded that somebody could take those tracks and turn it into the record it became....”

The other three albums in the series—1995’s Pure Phase, 1997’s Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space, and 2001’s Let It Come Down—are set to follow, but have not been announced. Spiritualized’s last LP was 2018’s And Nothing Hurt.

Read Pitchfork’s 5-10-15-20 feature with Spiritualized’s Jason Pierce.

Spiritualized: Lazer Guided Melodies

$35 at Rough Trade

$28 at Amazon