{{Infobox album | name = Purple Blue | type = studio | artist = Eric's Trip | cover = Purple_Blue.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|1996|01|16}} | recorded = August 1995,<ref>https://maritimemusicscene.neocities.org/sessions/studio/1995-08-xx-mg</ref> September 7–15,<ref>https://maritimemusicscene.neocities.org/sessions/studio/1995-09-07-et</ref> 1995<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/erics_trip-_love_supreme|title=Eric's Trip A Love Supreme | Exclaim!|website=Exclaim.ca|access-date=3 March 2022}}</ref> | venue = | studio = CMS Studios, Moncton, New Brunswick<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mail-archive.com/sloannet@sloanmusic.com/msg02168.html|title=Re: Wanting Eric's Trip info|website=Mail-archive.com|access-date=3 March 2022}}</ref> | genre = Indie rock, grunge | length = 45:12 | label = Sub Pop<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.subpop.com/releases/erics_trip/purple_blue|title=Purple Blue|first=Sub Pop|last=Records|website=Sub Pop Records}}</ref> | producer = Eric's Trip<br> Bob Weston | prev_title = The Road South 7" | prev_year = 1995 | next_title = Long Days Ride 'Till Tomorrow | next_year = 1996 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Purple Blue: Eric's Trip |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/purple-blue-mw0000646955 |website=AllMusic |access-date=10 July 2020}}</ref> }}
'''''Purple Blue''''' is the third and final studio recorded album by the Canadian indie band Eric's Trip.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/erics_trip-_love_supreme|title=Eric's Trip A Love Supreme|website=Exclaim.ca}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.seattleweekly.com/arts/erics-trip-at-sp20/|title=Eric's Trip at SP20|first=Rachel|last=Shimp|date=July 9, 2008|website=Seattle Weekly}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pressreader.com/canada/windsor-star/20080707/281998963222946|title=''Windsor Star'' - Eric's Trip 'active band again'|via=PressReader}}</ref> The album marked a turn to a heavier, more psychedelic sound, which Rick White would further explore with Elevator.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xLIiOE_jCpAC&q=Purple+Blue+eric%27s+trip&pg=PT339|title=Have Not Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance, 1985-1995|first1=Michael|last1=Barclay|first2=Ian A. D.|last2=Jack|first3=Jason|last3=Schneider|date=June 10, 2011|publisher=ECW Press|isbn=9781554909681|via=Google Books}}</ref>
A music video for "Sun Coming Up" was shot on Super8 film in Autumn 1995 by White, and fellow friend and artist, Peter Holt, and released to MuchMusic in 1996.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20121231033827/http://www.ericstripmovie.com/content</ref><ref>https://findingaids.library.dal.ca/music-videos-1</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5oEi98wF0M&</ref>
A tribute to the album can be found in the song "Eric Sleeps," by Australian indie band Youth Group, from their debut album ''Urban and Eastern''.
==Critical reception== ''Trouser Press'' wrote: "An assured slip of a record that favors full-on distorted rocketry over airy folk-pop and dinky minimalism, ''Purple Blue'' merely lacks the tunes that would defer tedium."<ref>{{cite web |title=Eric's Trip |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/erics-trip/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=10 July 2020}}</ref>
==Track listing== # "Introduction Into The..., Pt. 1-4" – 8:13<ref>{{cite web | url=http://sloannet.yupislyr.com/msg02/msg02533.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030094738/http://sloannet.yupislyr.com/msg02/msg02533.html | archive-date=2007-10-30 | title=Eric's Trip hinterland - who's who }}</ref> * a) "Hurt II" * b) "Grammy" * c) "Rib Bones" * d) "Purple Blue" # "Hourly" – 2:47 # "Sixteen Hours" – 3:05 # "Universe" – 3:08 # "Eyes Shut" – 1:37 # "Alone and Annoyed" – 2:12 # "Lighthouse" – 2:09 # "Spaceship Opening" – 2:18 # "Universal Dawn" – 3:32 # "One Floor Below" – 1:40 # "Now a Friend" – 1:54 # "Soon, Coming Closer" – 3:37 # "Not Yours" – 2:26 # "Sun Coming Up" – 2:20 # "Beach" – 4:14
==Personnel== *Julie Doiron – bass, vocals *Mark Gaudet – drums *Chris Thompson – guitar, vocals *Rick White – guitar, vocals
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