Rudimentary Peni - Pope Adrian 37th Psychristiatric CD/LP
"Pope Adrian 37th Psychristiatric" is the third LP by Rudimentary Peni. Recorded in 1992 but not released until 1995, it was the first music the band recorded after their already leftfield "Cacophony" album.
It is an underrated and difficult masterpiece of truly outsider music. Full of harrowing and morbid songs based on repetition, repetition and repetition, pushing the listener into a trance like mood. "Pope Adrian 37th Psychristiatric" shows the most experimental side of Rudimentary Peni testing the punk song concept, turning it into a mantra chant at times while sounding like only Rudimentary Peni could.
The album opens with lead track Pogo Pope, which sets the tone, with Blinko repeatedly singing ‘Pogo Pope’ ad nauseam, and the whole of the album has a continual loop of the phrase 'Popus Adrianus’ running through its entirety.
At the time Nick Blinko was experiencing severe delusions and believed that he was Pope Adrian the 37th and was detained in a psychiatric hospital under Section 3 of the 1983 Mental Health Act. The album is unhinged and challenging but 100% pure and idiosyncratic.
This official reissue comes on a single sleeve with printed inner and 16-page booklet with Nick Blinko artwork and has been remastered from the original tapes by Arthur Rizk.
Tracklist:
1. Pogo Pope
2. The Pope with No Name
3. Hadrianich Relique
4. II Papus Puss
5. Muse Sick (Sic)
6. Vatican't City Hearse
7. I'm a Dream
8. We're Gonna Destroy Life the World Gets Higher and Higher
9. Pills, Popes and Potions
10. Ireland Sun
11. Regicide Chaz III
12. Iron Lung
About this product: this reissue is available on CD and LP formats.
The CD is housed in a jewelcase.
The LP is pressed on black vinyl. Includes a 16-page 12"x12" booklet of lyrics/artwork.