Everything Was Beautiful
by Spiritualized
Metascore
83

Universal acclaim - based on 24 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 24
  3. Negative: 0 out of 24
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  1. Rolling Stone
    Mar 10, 2022
    60
    Most of Spiritualized's ninth LP comes off intricate, elastic, and soulful. [Mar 2022, p.71]
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6.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 12 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 12
  3. Negative: 2 out of 12
  1. Muzmarinator
    Apr 27, 2022
    9
    While it might not be up there with his classics like Ladies and Gentlemen or Lazer Guided Melodies Jason Pearce has moulded an epic littleWhile it might not be up there with his classics like Ladies and Gentlemen or Lazer Guided Melodies Jason Pearce has moulded an epic little journey together with this latest offering which is his best in some time. There is a nice sonic ark to the album and keeping it a little more lean means it’s not padded out with second rate material. The production is also improved over the previous few, and we have a return to the symphonic moments he is so good at. That said, I do miss some of the minute intricate details that have sown his best albums together. This still feels like a group of songs, where his best albums feel like a singular piece of art.… Full Review »
  2. Angel_Sigh
    Apr 23, 2022
    6
    It really wouldn't take much for Jason to get seriously good reviews, clearly. If an album as(relative to his past work) uninspired as thisIt really wouldn't take much for Jason to get seriously good reviews, clearly. If an album as(relative to his past work) uninspired as this can get an average of 83 then imagine how crazy critics would go if he offered up a genuine indian summer of an album.
    Instead, we get a seven track album. Of those tracks two have been floating around online in live form for years, namely D Song and A Song, and are, respectively, pretty good and turgid. Another was made for a NASA compilation album, the album high-point Always Together With You(which to be fair has had a glorious multi-voice chorus added to its original slightly meandering, indecisive form). Two more have been available on Spotify for something like two months; Crazy, which is another of the dreadful, stripped-back country-soul ballads that Jason inexplicably thinks are his forte, and the second best track on the album, the excellent Lockdown Song.

    Which, for a fan, leaves just two tracks that haven't been heard.

    I have long since stopped hoping, never mind expecting, Spiritualized to reach the heights of their nineties output. This band has been the single most important musical inspiration of my life, I love them and rank a clutch of their songs as the greatest things ever recorded by humans. But at this point there is nothing melodically surprising, none of the church-like, pin-drop beauty of earlier songs, music that felt like it was made of the most delicate materials in the universe. There is none of the roiling, dark, focused rock and roll of electricity or Cop shoot cop, or the daring chaos of no god only religion. It's all so incredibly tame and pleasant. And some of it is very pleasant. But Spiritualized were never just pleasant.    … Full Review »
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