Spiritualized Tickets

Briefly renamed Spiritualized Electric Mainline, 'Pure Phase' expanded on the amount of personnel involved in making the record, with Sean Cook joining on bass and the Balanescu Quartest adding string arrangements. The record sounds like no other as there are two mixes running together concurrently.

Jason: “You can’t really compare this record to any other because of how we mixed it; in such an “incorrect” way. When we made it I was crashing on (frequent Spiritualized collaborator) John Coxon’s couch in London; he had his own studio and was always open to new ideas.

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.