Spiritual Machines
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{{Infobox Album <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
| Name = Spiritual Machines
| Type = studio
| Artist = [[Our Lady Peace]]
| Cover = Spiritualmachines.jpg
| Released = [[December 12]], [[2000]] <small>(Canada)</small><br>[[March 13]], [[2001]] <small>(U.S.)</small>
| Recorded = ???
| Genre = [[Post-grunge]]<br>[[Art rock]]
| Length = 54:15
| Label = [[Columbia Records]]
| Producer = [[Arnold Lanni]], [[Raine Maida]]
| Reviews =
*[[Allmusic]] {{rating-5|4}} [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-5|3}} [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/ourladypeace/albums/album/97190/review/5942303/spiritual_machines link]
| Last album = ''[[Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch]]''<br />(1999)
| This album = '''''Spiritual Machines'''''<br />(2000)
| Next album = ''[[Gravity (Our Lady Peace album)|Gravity]]''<br />(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 to feature Sol Fox on the cover until ''[[A Decade]]'' was released in 2006, the last to feature Raine Maida's prominent [[falsetto]] vocals, and the last album that guitarist Mike Turner worked on in full. 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 [[The Age of Spiritual Machines|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 successful to date, and the rights to it have been purchased by [[Maple Records]], an independent Canadian label.{{Fact|date=April 2008}} 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 (Our Lady Peace album)|Gravity]].
There was a special edition release that came in a completely black CD case.{{Fact|date=April 2008}}
==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 (song)|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... Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch|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
{{Our Lady Peace}}
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