"Pierce integrates gospel music, Phil Spector-inspired arrangements and progressive influences over a core structure part dream pop, part drone. 1992's tour proved more modest, from the evidence compiled on Fucked Up Inside, but it's true to the tighter feel of the mid-`90s approach, before budgets and venues ballooned. The ambiance of Spiritualized yearns for spatial release, and even the Crest Theatre in San Diego and the Hollywood Palladium, restrained as they compare to the Royal Albert, commemorate the band in their more straitened, yet less symphonic, formative years"