Spiritualized have announced a 20th anniversary reissue of Amazing Grace. It’s out January 19 via Fat Possum. The album was remastered for vinyl; the 180-gram release will come as a standard black LP and in a limited dove gray pressing. Watch the videos for album tracks “Cheapster” and “She Kissed Me (It Felt Like a Hit),” along with a newly released visual for “Rated X.”
The reissue is part of the Spacemen Reissue Program, which has previously brought Lazer Guided Melodies (1992), Pure Phase (1995), Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space (1997), and Let It Come Down (2001) back to vinyl. The most recent Spiritualized album was 2022’s Everything Was Beautiful.
Following Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space (1997) and Let It Come Down (2001), the creation of Amazing Grace was comparatively fast. “It was almost the opposite of what I’d been doing for the two albums that preceded it,” J Spaceman said in a conversation with Andy Capper accompanying the reissue’s announcement. He elaborated: