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Clay for Ellen by Harper Peace6/4/2023 ![]() Spiritual Machines has been noted as being the end of an era for Our Lady Peace, as it was the last album produced by the band's longtime producer Arnold Lanni, the last to feature original guitarist Mike Turner in full, and the last studio album to feature art model Saul Fox (until 2021) on its cover. Unlike their previous releases, this one features a more organic, acoustic sound, and less obvious layering and electronic texturing. The band only took a break from recording to organize and perform at Summersault in 2000. A combination of lead singer-songwriter Raine Maida's prolific songwriting at the time and lead-guitarist Mike Turner's discovery of The Age of Spiritual Machines in a bookstore hurried the completion of the album. Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch, which had only been released 14 months prior. The album was written and recorded in two months while the band was still on tour in support of their previous record, Happiness. The Kurzweil K250 keyboard, one of his inventions, was utilized throughout the recording of the album. ![]() ![]() ![]() Short tracks of spoken dialog from Kurzweil himself are interspersed among the actual songs on the album. Although not initially intended, the project evolved into a conceptual interpretation of futurist and inventor Raymond Kurzweil's 1999 book The Age of Spiritual Machines. Spiritual Machines is the fourth studio album by the Canadian alternative rock band Our Lady Peace, released by Columbia Records in December 2000. ![]()
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