# Purple Blue

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Purple Blue
| type       = studio
| artist     = [Eric's Trip](/source/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 &#124; Exclaim!|website=Exclaim.ca|access-date=3 March 2022}}</ref>
| venue      =
| studio     = CMS Studios, [Moncton, New Brunswick](/source/Moncton)<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](/source/Indie_rock), [grunge](/source/grunge)
| length     = 45:12
| label      = [Sub Pop](/source/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](/source/Eric's_Trip)<br> [Bob Weston](/source/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](/source/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](/source/AllMusic) |access-date=10 July 2020}}</ref>
}}

'''''Purple Blue''''' is the third and final studio recorded album by the Canadian [indie](/source/Indie_(music)) band [Eric's Trip](/source/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](/source/Rick_White_(musician)) 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](/source/Youth_Group), from their debut album ''Urban and Eastern''.

==Critical reception==
''[Trouser Press](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Julie_Doiron) – bass, vocals
*Mark Gaudet – drums
*Chris Thompson – guitar, vocals
*Rick White – guitar, vocals

==References==
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{{Eric's Trip}}

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Category:Eric's Trip albums
Category:Sub Pop albums

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