Sweet Heart Sweet Light
by Spiritualized?
- Type: Album
- Released: 16 April 2012
- Label: Double Six
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 59:36
- Community rating: 3.89/5 from 9 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Recorded while Jason Pierce was undergoing chemotherapy for liver disease, 'Sweet Heart Sweet Light' is a tender and poppy addition to the Spiritualized canon. It combines the band's trademark space-rock gospel with more direct, accessible songwriting reminiscent of the Velvet Underground. The album balances themes of mortality and fragility with soaring, life-affirming melodies.
Genres
Descriptors: wall of sound, spacey, droning, dreamy, expansive
Tracklist
- Huh? (Intro) (01:01)
- Hey Jane (08:51)
- Little Girl (03:39)
- Get What You Deserve (06:46)
- Too Late (03:45)
- Headin' for the Top Now (08:22)
- Freedom (04:31)
- I Am What I Am (04:37)
- Mary (06:11)
- Life Is a Problem (04:02)
- So Long You Pretty Thing (07:51)
Credits
- Jason Pierce - Member
- Kate Radley - Member
- Sean Cook - Member
- John Coxon - guitar [gibson firebird]
- Damon Reece - Member
- Ray Dickaty - Member
- Evan Parker - alto saxophone
- Tom Edwards - arranged by [strings], piano, electric organ [hammond, farfisa compact, vox continental, elka], electric piano [fender rhodes], percussion, timpani
- Romeo Stodart - banjo, guitar [gibson 335]
- Roundhouse Choir - choir
- Farrow Design - design, art direction
- J. Spaceman - design, art direction
- Rathi Kumar - directed by [choir assistant director]
- Osnat Schmool - directed by [choir director]
- Kevin Bales - drums [gretsch round badge], drums [hayman vibrasonic], drums [zildjian cymbals]
- Anthony Leung - engineer [recording]
- Birgir J贸n Birgisson - engineer [recording]
- Hector Espinosa - engineer [recording]
- Scott Hackwith - engineer [recording]
- Tim Lewis - engineer [recording]
- Tony Foster - guitar [gibson les paul gold top], guitar [fender jazzmaster], bass guitar [fender precision bass], bass guitar [fender vi]
- Mick Paterson - management
- Rob Holden - management
- Bob Ludwig - mastered by
- James Aparicio - mixed by, engineer
- Beejaypii - photography by [motorway]
- Rupert Clervaux - producer [post-production]
- Hildur 脕rs忙lsd贸ttir - saw, strings [quartet iceland]
- Edda R煤n 脫lafsd贸ttir - strings [quartet iceland]
- Mar铆a Huld Markan Sigf煤sd贸ttir - strings [quartet iceland]
- S贸lr煤n Sumarli冒ad贸ttir - strings [quartet iceland]
- Emily Pringle - strings [quartet london]
- Henrietta Ridgeon - strings [quartet london]
- Laura Anstee - strings [quartet london]
- Sali-Wyn Ryan - strings [quartet london]
- Tony Bevan - tenor saxophone
- Finn Peters - tenor saxophone, flute
- James Adams - trombone, bass trombone
- Ben Edwards - trumpet
- Laura Dickinson - vocals [la]
- Melanie Nyema - vocals [la]
- SJ Selby - vocals [la]
- Claudia Smith - vocals [uk]