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Let It Come Down
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7.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 25 Ratings

  • Summary: Over two years in the making, 'Let It Come Down' is the UK band's first album of new material in four years. It utilizes over 100 musicians (including an orchestra and choral singers), although the music was entirely written and arranged by guitarist Jason Pierce.

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I Didn't Mean to Hurt You
I love you like I love the sunrise in the morning I miss you like I miss the water when I'm burning I didn't mean to hurt you dear the words just... See the rest of the song lyrics
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 22
  3. Negative: 0 out of 22
  1. E! Online
    100
    Clever? Yes. Stupid? Possibly. Essential? Absolutely.
  2. Dot Music
    90
    You could get lost for days in the depths of these arrangements, and still find something moving and transcendental at every gilded turn. It's a towering achievement...
  3. New Musical Express (NME)
    90
    'Let It Come Down' is another towering achievement - both musically and emotionally.... This is music as it's meant to be: raw, colossal and awe-inspiring. No wonder everything else just pales in comparison.
  4. AllMusic
    80
    Let It Come Down is another masterfully made Spiritualized album, but its very ambitions sometimes overwhelm it.
  5. The Wire
    70
    Let It Come Down suffers just a little from Pierce's presumably healthier outlook. [#211, p.66]
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  6. Neumu.net
    70
    As if its size alone weren't enough to set the album apart from his preceding Spiritualized outings, Pierce has removed all the sounds he thought were immediately identifiable as Spiritualized -- delay, phase, Telecaster, Farfisa -- and left the songs as largely orchestral numbers.
  7. Austin Chronicle
    40
    Pierce shows neither the vocal presence nor the songwriting chops to justify Let It Come Down's bloated orchestral excess.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 11
  3. Negative: 1 out of 11
  1. JonL
    Aug 21, 2006
    10
    The best Spiritualized album, period. Bombastic, yes, but rather than crushing the confessional songwriting of Pierce, it transcends it, and The best Spiritualized album, period. Bombastic, yes, but rather than crushing the confessional songwriting of Pierce, it transcends it, and the emotional impact is stunning. Too bad Amazing Grace couldn't live up to it...… Expand
  2. Chris
    Nov 12, 2001
    10
    Jason Spaceman is a genius. A natural progression from his earlier work.
  4. JacG.
    Nov 20, 2001
    10
    Absolutely the best I have heard in years!!!!
  5. JamesT.
    Nov 19, 2001
    9
    This cd close a perfect circle initiated with lazer guided melodies. From minimal to maximun overdrive. Pink Floyd meets Phillip Glass. Brian This cd close a perfect circle initiated with lazer guided melodies. From minimal to maximun overdrive. Pink Floyd meets Phillip Glass. Brian Wilson remixed by krautrockers. A gospel choir on acid. Brilliant.… Expand
  6. ihtyandr
    Dec 12, 2002
    9
    Number one album of the 2001 for russian poetic soul. haven & heaven for me. its really narcotic from pierce.
  7. MacM.
    Oct 8, 2002
    9
    Drugged up, fucked up, broken up, loved up, busted up... Just stunning.
  8. Travis
    Jul 7, 2004
    3
    i really just don't understand how it could have gone so damn wrong. there seem to be only two songs on this album - the rehashed i really just don't understand how it could have gone so damn wrong. there seem to be only two songs on this album - the rehashed versions of 'electricity', and downright boring dirges, cleaved in the middle by a merely passable exercise in free-jazz. it's horrible. the absolute worst spiritualized album.… Expand

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#66 Most Discussed Album of 2001
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#43 Most Shared Album of 2001

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