Pierce in pieces

Stylus writer Ian Mathers considers Spiritualized's latest LP Amazing Grace to be "possibly the worst-sequenced album I’ve ever heard". Find out how he'd set about giving the album some much-needed surgery.

Elsewhere, Ian has been effusive in his praise of The Earth Is Not A Dead Cold Place, the new album from topically-named Texan quartet Explosions In The Sky. (And while you're at it, check out Nick Southall's review of their previous LP, the fantastically-titled Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever.)