{"product_id":"spiritualized-amazing-grace-cd","title":"Spiritualized - Amazing Grace (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpiritualized\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand Fat Possum Records reissue\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmazing Grace\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eas part of the second volume of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Spaceman Reissue Program: Curated by J Spaceman.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSomewhat overlooked at the time,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmazing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGrace\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis possibly the heaviest and most intimate\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpiritualized\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003erecord. A wild collection of blazing garage rock songs and beautifully tender, sometimes devastatingly sad, ballads. They are songs that reach for help from a broken place, ragged and lonely, in love with a world hanging by a thread. 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