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. The album would be an end of an era of sorts for the band. It was the last OLP album to be produced by Arnold Lanni, the last to feature Saul on the cover, and most importantly, 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, a "machine" 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 successful to date, and the rights to it have been purchased by Maple Records, an independant Canadian label. Its lack of success is attributed to the experimentation (spoken exerpts from the book).

Track listing

1. "Ray Kurzweil Intro"
2. "Right Behind You (Mafia)"
3. "Ray Kurzweil 2029"
4. "In Repair"
5. "Life"
6. "Middle of Yesterday"
7. "Are You Sad?"
8. "Ray Kurzweil 2029 (Part 2)"
9. "Made To Heal"
10. "Ray Kurzweil 1949-97"
11. "Everyone's a Junkie"
12. "Ray Kurzweil On Death"
13. "All My Friends"
14. "If You Believe"
15. "The Wonderful Future"
16. "Kurzweil and Molly" (hidden track)

Singles

• Right Behind You (Mafia)
• In Repair
• Life

2001 albums | Our Lady Peace albums