Sweet Heart Sweet Light

Sweet Heart Sweet Light is the seventh studio album by Spiritualized. It was released on April 17, 2012, on Double Six Records. The band spent two years recording the album, in three different cities and frontman Jason Pierce spent another year mixing it at home. Spiritualized previewed the record live, playing it in its entirety during a show at the Royal Albert Hall on October 11, 2011. Sweet Heart Sweet Light featured contributions from Pierce’s 11 year old daughter Poppy Spaceman, as well as contributions from the Icelandic band Amiina.Jason Pierce revealed in an interview that in the album will “embrace” more poppy songs. Jason Pierce also stated that the album was partly inspired by the experiences of performing Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space live in its entirety.Sweet Heart Sweet Light was originally going to be called Huh? Pierce was taking medication for liver disease while writing the album and the original title was a reference to the effects the medicine had on Pierce’s mind.