Product Description

Emerging from the ashes of '80s psychedelicists Spacemen 3,Spiritualised simultaneously refined and expanded that group's Velvet Underground-on-acid sound. Like Spiritualised's other albums, PURE PHASE is full of lush, orchestral pop, psychedelic Britrock and spacey freakouts. Atmosphere is all, as gentle voices glide over heavily reverberating guitar and organ patterns.
The spirit of early Pink Floyd is mixed with the panoramic semi-prog of Radiohead as wah-wah guitars join swooping keyboards and complex latticeworks of feedback. PURE PHASE's greatest strength lies in it's dynamic range,as tender, breathy ballads give way to mind-bending free-for-alls in an album that paves the way for the band's 1997 masterwork LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WE ARE FLOATING IN SPACE.

Track Listing

1. Medication
2. Slide Song
3. Electric Phase
4. All Of My Tears
5. These Blues
6. Let It Flow
7. Take Good Care Of It
8. Born Never Asked
9. Electric Mainline
10. Lay Back In The Sun
11. Good Times
12. Pure Phase
13. Spread Your Wings
14. Feel Like Goin' Home

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30535 in Music
• Released on: 2000-09-02
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Simply beautiful
Apologies in advance for sounding like an NME journo, but one of the things I love about this band is their almost classical approach. Jason Pierce has themes that run through his records, and this is particularly the case with Pure Phase.

It is music that is not in a hurry for anything, and the length of some of the tracks really gives him time to explore to explore his music.

Pure Phase is not really music at all - it's simply an electronic noise which is sort of the aural equivalent of watching Blue - can you see the background changing? Are there shapes in there? Is there stuff hidden inside the noise. This track leads into Spread Your Wings, which ends with strings to make your heart soar.

Not everyone's cup of tea, and overall, Ladies and Gentlemen is probably the stronger record. But this is my favourite (possibly because it has the least jazz/orchestral noodling/crashing of the records - he does get a bit self indulgent at times)

Give it a try and see what you think. They are a great band, albeit a criminally underrated one.

Dreamy, chilled out space-rock anthems for 21st century.
Pure phase is,like the title suggests, a work of purety in emotion and expression. Songwriter/singer Jason Pierce wears his heart on his sleeve and this honest approach comes across in the hazy, elegiaclly beautiful music. It kinda reminds me of 2001: A Space Oddysey, but more in feel than any actual musical similarity. If you've ever fantasised about floating around in the limbo of Orion's Belt then you really owe it to yourself to check this one out.