Purple Blue is Eric's Trip's third album, and it was originally released in 1996. It has been out of print on vinyl since its original, 1996 pressing. Eric's Trip was a Canadian indie rock band hailing from Moncton, New Brunswick. The band formed in 1990 when musicians Rick White and Christopher Thompson of The Forest joined Julie Doiron and Ed Vaughan (who was later replaced by Mark Gaudet of Purple Knight). White described their sound as "sappy melodic pop music on top of thick distortion." They were the first Canadian band to be signed to Sub Pop Records, and the band broke up in 1996 (they subsequently reunited in 2001, and again in August 2006.)
