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It could have been a book of short stories. Or a mixed-media art installation, or even some new architectural marvel. It is, after all, an album titled Imperial Phase, and it evokes—and then necessarily chops to pieces—all the desire, over-reach, and moral obscenity that such an expression implies. The phrase itself, repeated in the titular song by Plastic Ants’ singer-songwriter Robert Cherry, originated with another urbane, media-smart singer-songwriter, the Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant, and it’s pure cheek, as it absolutely must be. It initially conjures those can-do-no-wrong, insouciant chapters in the stories of many an ascendant entertainment career—that moment of perfect platinum power, or in this case, gold (a color mentioned five times on the record). It’s when things get exquisitely, breathlessly, insufferably stratospheric.
Condition:NEW.
TRACK LISTINGS
1. Worry to Faith
2. Imperial Phase
3. A Sea of Upturned Faces
4. Destiny No Longer Awaits
5. The Girl Who Stole the World
6. Magnetic Mind
7. Closer
8. Mystery Chord
9. You Will Know Love
10. Tintype
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