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. The album was released on 7 September 2018 through

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in the United States and

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in the United Kingdom, and is the band's first album in six years since 2012's ''

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''. The album was announced on 11 June 2018, along with the release of the album's first singles, "I'm Your Man" and "A Perfect Miracle". The album was produced by

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. '' Everything Was Beautiful'', the band's ninth studio album released in 2022, is intended to be a companion piece to ''And Nothing Hurt'' and was created from the same demo sessions as that album. When both album titles are combined, they form the quote "Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt", taken from the 1969 novel ''

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'' by

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Track listing

Personnel

Musicians * J. Spaceman – Fender Thinline,

Fender Jazzmaster The Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, Fender Jazzmaster is an electric guitar designed as a more expensive sibling of the Fender Stratocaster. First introduced at the 1958 NAMM Show, it was initially marketed to jazz guitarists, but found ...

, Gibson L-00,

Fender Bass VI The Fender Bass VI, originally known as the Fender VI, is a six-string electric bass guitar made by Fender. Design concept and history The Fender VI was released in 1961 and followed the concept of the Danelectro six-string bass released in 1956 ...

, Burns Sonic Bass, Gibson Firebird III,

Farfisa Farfisa (Fabbriche Riunite di Fisarmoniche) is a manufacturer of electronics based in Osimo, Italy, founded in 1946. The company manufactured a series of compact electronic organs in the 1960s and 1970s, including the Compact, FAST, Professiona ...

Vox Continental The Vox Continental is a transistorised combo organ that was manufactured between 1962 and 1971 by the British musical equipment manufacturer Vox. It was designed for touring musicians and as an alternative to the heavy Hammond organ. It supp ...

, Juno-60, Radioshack 100, harmonica, glockenspiel * Tony Foster – Gibson Black Beauty, Fender Jazzmaster, harmonica,

Rickenbacker Rickenbacker International Corporation is a string instrument manufacturer based in Santa Ana, California. The company is credited as the first known maker of electric guitars – a steel guitar in 1932 – and today produces a range ...

lap steel The lap steel guitar, also known as a Hawaiian guitar, is a type of steel guitar without pedals that is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position across the performer's lap. Unlike the usual manner of playing a traditional ac ...

, Epiphone Batwing * James Stelfox –

Fender Precision Bass The Fender Precision Bass (often shortened to "P-Bass") is a model of electric bass guitar manufactured by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. In its standard, post-1957 configuration, the Precision Bass is a solid body, four-stringed instrum ...

Fender Jazz Bass The Fender Jazz Bass (often shortened to ''J-Bass'') is the second model of Bass guitar, electric bass created by Leo Fender. It is distinct from the Fender Precision Bass, Precision Bass in that its tone is brighter and richer in the midrange a ...

, Burns Sonic Bass, Fender Bass VI * Tom Edwards – percussion, timpani, vibraphone, glockenspiel * Lee Horsley – Hammond, piano, Vox Continental,

Fender Rhodes The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, th ...

, Farfisa Compact *

Dave Richmond David Henry Richmond (born 1940 in Brighton, Sussex) is a professional bass player, best known as a founder member of the 1960s pop group Manfred Mann, playing with the band in 1963.Strong, Martin C. (2003) ''The Great Rock Discography'', Canon ...

– orchestral bass, Burns Bison Bass * Scott Baylis –

Roland Juno-106 The Roland Juno-106 is a synthesizer released by Roland Corporation in February 1984. Features The Juno-106 is a polyphonic synthesizer with six voices. It is an analog synthesizer but with digitally controlled oscillators and chorus effects ...

, Roland SH-01, Roland JU-06, Roli Seaboard * Jonny Aitken – drums * John Coxon – Gibson Firebird * Alan Wilkinson – saxophones * Kevin Brown – saxophones * Kevin Cunningham – trumpet * Stuart Haugh – trombone * Jim Walker – violin * Daniel Thomas – singing * Lena Wright – singing * Wendi Rose – singing * Travis Cole – singing * Alex Lamey – strings and horns * Adam Langston – strings and horns Technical personnel * J. Spaceman – production, mixing, further production and mixing * Darren Lawson – mixing * Guy Massey – recording engineering * Tom Leach – recording engineering, assistant engineering * Misha Hering – recording engineering *

Aaron Cupples Aaron Nicolas Cupples is an Australian born, London based, film composer, record producer, and musician. He has produced, composed or mixed for artists such as Spiritualized, Blanck Mass, Civil Civic, The Vaccines, The Drones (Australian band), ...

– recording engineering * Iggy B – recording engineering * David Stanley – recording engineering * Shuta Shinoda – recording engineering * Darren Lawson – recording engineering * Oli Bayston – recording engineering * Emre Ramazanoglu – recording engineering * Armelle Pignon – assistant engineering * Ben McCluskey – assistant engineering * Josh Green – assistant engineering * Max Prior – assistant engineering * Tom Leach – assistant engineering * Noel Summerville – mastering engineering *

Steve Mackey Stephen Patrick Mackey (born 10 November 1966) is an English musician and record producer best known as the bass guitarist for the alternative rock band Pulp, which he joined in 1989. As a record producer, he has produced songs and albums by M ...

– further production and mixing Artwork * Juliette Larthe – photography * Christina Dunlap – photography * Travis Waddell – photography * John Coxon – photography * Rich Good – photography *

Farrow Farrow is a hypercorrected form of Ferror (''Farrar''), an occupational surname for a blacksmith or an ironworker, an old name of early Medieval English and French origin. The name derives from the Middle English and Old French terms "ferrer, ferr ...

– design and art direction * Spaceman – design and art direction

Charts

References

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