Purity Ring make lullabies for the club, drawing equally from airy 90s R&B, lush dream pop, and the powerful, bone-rattling immediacy of modern hip hop. Megan’s remarkable voice is at once ecstatic and ethereal, soaring joyfully through Corin’s carefully chopped beats, trembling synths, and skewed vocal samples.
Despite the band’s young age (Corin is 21, Megan 24) and short gestation (they formed in late 2010), Purity Ring have delivered one of 2012's most assured – and anticipated – debuts with Shrines. Indeed, Shrines feels like anything but a first record - its vocal hooks are inescapable, its lush production futuristic and sophisticated but also as pristine as anything on pop radio. The record's 11 tracks trace a unique aesthetic universe that is carefully crafted and fully realized - deftly walking the lines between trap-rap exhilaration and otherworldly rapture, pleasure-center pop and diaristic emotion, childlike dread and total self-possession. Purity Ring's is a universe that invites exploration and demands revisiting.
This could end up being one of my favorite albums of the year. I like that their sound isn't too drastically different from song-to-song. The formula worked wonders for The xx, so I don't see that as a bad thing.
I just bought it. WOW. This album is a ****ing masterpiece. It's like a few of my favorite indie artists combined into one artist. I love it. And I can see it being in my top 3 albums of the year.
They're coming here next month, I definitely want to see them live.
I figured Owl made this thread when I saw the title haha. I heard Belispeak on Erik Rhodes' tumblr before it was taken down. I really like it. Looking forward to the album.
