Spiritualized review – drone-rock's dark magus orchestrates a transcendent wig-out

Hammersmith Apollo, LondonBy turns poignant and defiant, the soulful rock’n’roll wastrel Jason Pierce turns up the feedback and faces down his mortality – flanked by a horn section and a gospel choirThe air of all-too-keenly felt mortality that coils throughout Spiritualized’s latest album, And Nothing Hurt, is no mere affectation. Once the seemingly invincible leader of Spacemen 3 – drone-rock hedonists who proudly “took drugs to make music to take drugs...

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