Spiritualized - Pure Phase - Limited Edition Glow In The Dark Vinyl Double LP
Artist: Spiritualized
Label: Fat Possum Records
Cat no: FP17523
Release Date: 09/07/2021
Briefly renamed Spiritualized Electric Mainline, Pure Phase expanded on the amount of personnel involved in making a Spiritualized record, with Sean Cook joining on bass and the Balanescu Quartet adding string arrangements. The record sounds like no other as there are two mixes running together concurrently. Commenting on the album today Jason Pierce recalls:
“You can’t really compare this record to any other because of how we mixed it; in such an “incorrect” way. We mixed the tracks twice but I couldn’t decide which one I liked better so we said “let’s have them both”. Both of them were on tape so we spent hours cutting them into usable sections. If you run two things together in parallel you get this kind of Hawkwind effect (phase), which gets deeper as they drift away from being ‘locked’, so we had to keep re-locking on a bass drum every eight or ten bars and it took forever.
If you listen to the isolated parts, everything is incredibly simple, the horns, the slide, all these little motifs and they lock together like some strange kind of machine. Something like Kraftwerk was the nearest thing in my musical vocabulary at the time. Great rock and roll music is like systems, it has its own endless cycle. Pure Phase was Michael Nyman, Steve Reich and John Adams, rock ‘n’ roll and gospel music, and it sounds like driving as fast as you can in torrential rain.
I wish I could do it now, to mix things twice and throw it together and end up with this magic world. It was a thing that was out of our control and it just sounded better than we could have imagined so we chased it.”
Pure Phase will be released 25th June. The album is the second in this series of 180g double albums mastered by Alchemy Mastering, presented in a gatefold jacket with reworked green artwork by Mark Farrow.
Tracklisting
SIDE A- Medication
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The Slide Song
- Electric Phase
- All Of My Tears
- These Blues
SIDE B
- Let It Flow
- Take Good Care Of It
- Born Never Asked
- Electric Mainline
SIDE C
- Lay Back In The Sun
- Pure Phase
- Spread Your Wings
- Feel Like Goin' Home
SIDE D
- Good Times
- Pure Phase