Pure Phase
Artist Spiritualized
Genre Rock
Style Psychedelic Rock
Style Indie Rock

Pure Phase is the second studio album by Spiritualized, released on 28 March 1995. The album was recorded in the Moles Studio in Bath, and features contributions from The Balanescu Quartet. Initial CD copies were sold in a glow-in-the-dark, encapsulated CD case. The lineup fluctuated during recording, with the band eventually reduced to a core trio of Jason Pierce, Kate Radley and Sean Cook. Previous members Mark Refoy and Jonny Mattock performed the main guitar and drums sections respectively, but by the time of album release, both men had been sacked from the band. At the time of release, Pierce had renamed the band as “Spiritualized Electric Mainline”, the name that appears on the album cover, before reverting to the Spiritualized name shortly afterwards. The track “Pure Phase” was the basis for a limited edition release called “Pure Phase Tones For DJs”, which consisted of 16 versions of “Pure Phase”, four on each side of the single, playable at both 33 and 45rpm. The tracks were in the keys of C/F; D/G; E/A; F/B-flat; G/C; A/D; B/E; and C/F, at varying frequencies. Pierce intended that they were to be used as a set, in order to make chords. The ‘Pure Phase Tone’ still features heavily in Spiritualized’s live set to this day, playing in between songs and before they go onstage, acting as their entrance music.

Tracklisting

  1. Medication (8:15)
  2. The Slide Song (3:52)
  3. Electric Phase (1:33)
  4. All Of My Tears (3:09)
  5. These Blues (3:04)
  6. Let It Flow (5:30)
  7. Take Good Care Of It (4:36)
  8. Born Never Asked (2:10)
  9. Electric Mainline (7:34)
  10. Lay Back In The Sun (5:08)
  11. Good Times (4:54)
  12. Pure Phase (6:30)
  13. Spread Your Wings (6:17)
  14. Feel Like Goin’ Home (5:38)

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Wikipedia URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Phase
Format Vinyl 2× LP Album Limited Edition Reissue Special Edition (Glow In The Dark, 180 Gram, Gatefold Sleeve)
Label Fat Possum Records
Catalog Number FP1752-3
Notes Pure Phase is the second installment in Fat Possum’s four-part “[l2182069]”. THIS: Special limited edition reissue pressed on 180 gram glow-in-the-dark vinyl (faintly greenish milky clear) and housed in a glossy gatefold sleeve with heavyweight custom inner sleeves. Issued factory sealed with hype sticker. A limited number of glow-in-the-dark copies purchased from online retailer [l1300462] also include a hand-numbered print. Reissue also available in a [url=https://www.discogs.com/release/19095670]standard black vinyl[/url] edition. On the reissue artwork: Front cover features a new photograph, by John Ross, of the “original luminous album packaging” (1995 glow-in-the-dark CD case) designed by J.Spaceman, Blue Source and Carol Kemp. Gatefold interior and inner sleeves feature scans of photographs, by Kevin Westenberg, that were printed in 1995 and have since decayed (artist miscredited as “Kevin Westerberg” on release). Runouts are stamped, except for the hand-etched “BAZZA ALCHEMY” lacquer cutting signature on side A, and the second appearance of the Fat Possum catalog number in each runout (hand-etched “FP1752-1 X1”). All stamped text is inverted relative to the hand-etched text. Shrinkwrap sticker: Made in Czech Republic.
Discogs URL Spiritualized - Pure Phase