Our Lady Peace: Spiritual Machines
Clumsy was one of the first few real CDs I ever owned and remember at the time thinking to myself “Wow, this is a bit lame.” Being one of the few CDs I owned however it received weeks of play through lack of choice and at the time I was listening to very standard and less mature punk (sorry, Offspring). As time went by I became completely obsessed, I mean big time by their use of funny tunings, Raine’s voice and their melodic lyrics which took me away from my own life and my own issues. Happiness Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch was just as much as a triumph as Clumsy; however Spiritual machines is by far the best album I have ever owned: OLP’s fourth outing was by far there finest hour. The album is based on the works of futurologist Ray Kurzweil who supplies trinkets of insight from his book Age of Spiritual Machines.
Their unique style of rock comes to its climax in this album which carries such amazing tracks as Life, a deep rock anthem, Are You Sad? an ambient and moving track for times of quiet reflection and Made to heal a melodic and uplifting song.
In Summary
This album is a whole entity dealing with the spiritual and the metaphysical complete and solid from start to finish. It’s a fantastic album dealing with issues ahead of its time and it’s sad to see that OLP has gone the way they have with Gravity.
Review by Avalon Haze
Tracklisting
- R.K. Intro
- Right Behind You (Mafia)
- R.K. 2029 (part 1)
- In Repair
- Life
- Middle of Yesterday
- Are You Sad?
- R.K. 2029 (part 2)
- Made To Heal
- R.K. 1949-47
- Everyone’s a Junkie
- R.K. On Death
- All My Friends
- If You Believe
- The wonderful future
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