albums of the decade - 80. Spritualized - Let It come Down

80. Spritualized - Let It Come Down (2001)

'Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space' is one of my favourite albums of all time and Spiritualized are a top, top band. 'Let It Come Down' was a worthy follow-up to the aforementioned classic, as the grandiosity here includes over 100 musicians, with an orchestra and choral singers in the shakeup. My hero Jason Pierce wrote all the music here and his colossal outlook is once again like nothing else. 'Stop Your Crying' is up there with The Flaming Lips' 'Do You Realize?' as one of the songs of the decade and is the sound of a newly-healed man. Spiritualized are normally "drugged up, fucked up, broken up, loved up, busted up" according to one fan on Metacritic.com, but this record is the sobering hindsight of those once turbulent times, and of a spaceman truly coming of age.