Spiritual Machines

Infobox Album
Name = Spiritual Machines
Type = studio
Artist = Our Lady Peace


Released = December 12, 2000 (Canada)
March 13, 2001 (U.S.)
Recorded = ???
Genre = Post-grunge
Art rock
Length = 54:15
Label = Columbia Records
Producer = Arnold Lanni, Raine Maida
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:apfixqq0ldte link]
*Entertainment Weekly B- [http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,280306,00.html link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|3|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/ourladypeace/albums/album/97190/review/5942303/spiritual_machines link]
*Sputnikmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?albumid=2545 link]
Last album = "Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch"
(1999)
This album = "Spiritual Machines"
(2000)
Next album = "Gravity"
(2002)
Misc = Singles
Name = Spiritual Machines
Type = studio
single 1 = Right Behind You (Mafia)
single 2 = In Repair
single 3 = Life

"Spiritual Machines" is the title of Our Lady Peace's fourth album. It was released on December 12, 2000 by Sony Records. It was inspired by the book "The Age of Spiritual Machines" by Ray Kurzweil.

"Spiritual Machines" would mark the end of an era for Our Lady Peace. It was the last album to be produced by Arnold Lanni, the last studio album to feature Sol Fox on its cover, the last to feature Raine Maida's prominent falsetto vocals, the last to feature prominently metaphorical and fantasy-based poetic lyrics, and the last album that guitarist Mike Turner worked on in full. Over the course of recording of the album, percussionist Jeremy Taggart suffered a serious ankle injury during a mugging. While he recovered, Taggart's friend Matt Cameron, current drummer for Pearl Jam, filled in for Taggart on the tracks "Right Behind You (Mafia)" and "Are You Sad?". {cite web http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:apfixqq0ldte} ]

The album artwork was created by Oli Goldsmith, who also directed the video for "In Repair". Exactly 16:37 into the last song on the album "The Wonderful Future", there is a hidden track with Ray Kurzweil communicating with 'Molly'. Molly is a robot from 2099, who at the beginning of the book was a 23 year old woman who knew nothing about what Kurzweil was trying to explain, and then started to evolve in the way Kurzweil predicted.

The album is Our Lady Peace's least commercially successful to date. "Spiritual Machines"' lack of success is attributed to the experimentation of spoken excerpts from the book being included on the album.Fact|date=April 2008 Despite being the least commercially successful album, many have considered Spiritual Machines to be the highlight of the bands creativity, before they adopted a more mainstream sound and abandoned Raine Maida's falsetto vocals with their next album, Gravity.

Track listing

# "R.K. Intro" – 0:06
# "Right Behind You (Mafia)" – 3:14
# "R.K. 2029" – 0:15
# "In Repair" – 3:58
# "Life" – 4:23
# "Middle of Yesterday" – 3:54
# "Are You Sad?" – 5:08
# "R.K. 2029 (Part 2)" – 0:12
# "Made to Heal" – 3:47
# "R.K. 1949–97" – 0:44
# "Everyone's a Junkie" – 3:38
# "R.K. on Death" – 0:39
# "All My Friends" – 3:37
# "If You Believe" – 3:35
# "The Wonderful Future" – 4:30 (20:00 including the silence & hidden track)
#* "Kurzweil and Molly" (hidden track) - Starts at 16:37
# "4 A.M." (Japanese bonus track)
# "Clumsy" (Japanese bonus track)
# "Car Crash" (Japanese bonus track)

Non-album Tracks

# "A Waste of Violence (The Weight of Violence)- This title appeared on the original Spiritual Machines artwork by Oli Goldsmith as well as webcasts of the band recording the album; no version available
# "La Bra"- Song title revealed through webcast during the recording of Spiritual Machines; no version available
# "Ordinary/Ordinary Day"- Abandoned track from the Happiness sessions that was brought into the Spiritual Machines sessions; no version available
# "Sleeping In"- Abandoned track from the Happiness sessions that was brought into the Spiritual Machines sessions; no version available
# "R.K. Jack"- Unreleased spoken track by Ray Kurzweil; not available