Pure Phase - the second LP by Spiritualized, about whom I have eulogised several times already. Coming between Laser Guided Melodies, and Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space, Pure Phase makes good use of bluesy, repetitious space rock, with constant allusions to very heavy drugs....quelle surprise.
Interviews with Jason Pierce tended to focus on 'are all the songs about smack?', pretty much until he nearly died of double pneumonia between finishing the recording and the release of Songs In A&E. He always claimed that the songs he sang did not necessarily depict his own lifestyle, and would get very shirty when people surmised that lines like 'When I wake up in the morning I take my medication / and spend the rest of the day waiting for it to wear off' might suggest that he spent a lot of time lolling around doing heroin. Hmmm...Jason, I think you protest too much.
He could have been mainlining Ovaltine for all I care, as long as he puts out records as gorgeously intoxicating as this.
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