Recorded over the past two years in Wales, Los Angeles and Reykjavik, and mixed for a year in the confines of his own home, Sweet Heart Sweet Light will be Spiritualized's seventh studio album and the first release since last year's epic Radio City Music Hall rendering of their 1997 game changer Ladies In Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space.

Coming four years after release of the internationally acclaimed Songs In A&E, Sweet Heart Sweet Light promises to be one of the most eagerly anticipated releases of 2012.

Taking musical risks is a hallmark of Spiritualized's outlook. Witness them playing the new album, unannounced, from start to finish live at London's historic Royal Albert Hall recently – something unheard of in today's clamour for instant hit gratification. As J.Spacemen says "I don't believe there are any rules" and this album will testify to that.