12/26/2023 0 Comments Pure moods track listing![]() For me, and for many others, it felt like paradise.īefore the shadow of Bezos, before the Zuck, before, even, the contemporary comedy provided for us by the insidiously dippy Elon Musk, there was Sir Richard Branson. Pure Moods’ essence is safe, formless, and mostly meaningless, like a piece of art hung in a bathroom. For others, it can suggest an intensely ambivalent mixture of pity and allure. ![]() For some, hearing the album might pang a Proustian memory of falling asleep on a familiar sofa. Swooning and naked in its pride, the 17-song compilation album, advertised in 60-second hallucinations disguised as infomercials, was a warm vat of music that we might today refer to loosely as “new age.” Its carefully selected tracklist-a mosaic made largely up of film or television scores, or trance remixes thereof-seemed engineered to induce a ridiculous sort of fugue state. You may not remember hearing this work, but after watching the commercial, you might find yourself feeling that you’ve always known lines from its script. ![]() Unexpected, unbidden, and more or less unnecessary, Pure Moods is a piece woven with some wear into the silk of the popular unconsciousness. ![]()
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