Pope Adrian 37th Psychristiatric - Black LP
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01/10/2025
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With Printed Inner and 16 Page Booklet.
Catalog Number: SEAL 030 LP
Color: Black
Format: LP
UPC: 5056321697103
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.