Today, I’ve been listening to Morphine’s Cure for Pain on loop. It’s brilliantly minimal yet powerful, with a constant groove—like the perfect road album. No wonder it’s often associated with the Beat Generation.
This album feels complete, its sound tastefully evolving from track to track. I love the palette of influences it draws: the Santana-esque percussive beats on Let’s Take a Trip Together, the sun-baked desert riff of Sheila, and finally, the closing track, Miles Davis’ Funeral—a haunting, desert ballad.
I started writing this post while at the last quarter of the album. And since I have it on repeat, the cherry on top is how the ending seamlessly melts back into Dawna, the sax-driven ambient opener. There’s no escaping this album today.
Here we go again. It has everything, including the raw riffs of Buena, the album’s second track. Ironically this is where I need to stop writing, at the beginning—‘Buena’ is playing, and I need to move. See ya.