It's another week of wildly anticipated records being released all at once, much to the joy of all music fans. With a record that's been on repeat for many since it first started streaming, Purity Ring finally releases their much anticipated debut. Passion Pit follows up their star-making debut while Foxygen creates theirs, and The Antlers give us reason to tell everyone why we love them so much again. With their old time rock sensibilities and lovely song [...]
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A few of my favorite new releases this week, including the latest from Passion Pit , the debut from Purity Ring , and a brand new EP from one my big time favorites — The Antlers . As always, be sure to check out Largehearted Boy for the rest of this week's new releases. The Antlers// Undersea [...]

Montreal duo Purity Ring unlocks something primordial and ancient with keycards and retina scanners. Singer Megan James and producer/instrumentalist Corin Roddick don't use synths and reverb to shroud emotion. Instead, they use technology to serve it bloody and still beating. Only Roddick's trap beats can coax James' nascent voice from her diaphragm. Shrines isn't trying to capitalize on some moment where rapid hi-hats and deep bass mix with dream-pop vocals; it manipulates two elements to make something malleable, elusive, sexual, and one of the only albums that I can both sleep and run to. Maybe it's because [...]

I'm taking a brief break from my hiatus because I've quite simply built up too much great music over the last couple of weeks and I just can't keep it to myself anymore. Today we have new stuff from Justice, Jacques Greene, Flying Lotus, The Odd Future crew and many more, so let's get to it. First up is Justice's most recent video for their single "Newlands" off of last year's Audio, Video, Disco LP. I know the album got a lot of mixed reviews from fans expecting a repeat of their brilliant 2007 debut Cross [...]

Canada is known for loving their strong bier and the sport of hockey. Lately, I have been loving the electronically hip music that they have been sending south of the border through the airwaves. Purity Ring is one of these bands that has been making my ears go fully erect. They are out of Montreal and have been slowly seducing their fans by releasing a single here and there over the past few years. Their debut album, Shrines , comes out on July 24th but I was able to get my hands on it at [...]

Purity Ring appeared on the scene in early 2011 with their single, “Ungirthed,” a track oozing with chopped and screwed qualities reminiscent of electro-wizard Star Slinger . About one minute into the track, we hear the voice of Megan James, bringing an oblique sense of intimacy to Corin Roddick's otherwise anonymous and vast track. She dizzyingly repeats “Teeth clicking/ears ringing” so much that the words feel empty, functioning as nothing more than sound. Just glancing at the tracklist for Shrines gives the impression of [...]

Finally settling down to a record for review whilst attempting to unclog the WC may seem an unorthodox move and indeed it's quite undoubtedly not quite one of the presumed many activities Megan James and Corin Roddick were aspiring to soundtrack when they set to work on Shrines . That said, it's a decidedly acute way in which to discern what floats and what, within the context of their Purity Ring début full-length, doesn't quite work. Needless to say Fineshrine, with its loveable, anatomy-inspired lyrics of "cut open my [...]

Tune! Video directed by Young Replicant. Buy "Fineshrine": iTunes UK | iTunes US

Megan James en las voces y Corin Roddicks en los controles son Purity Ring , dúo que mañana lanza oficialmente su debut titulado Shrines a través del sello 4AD. Los de Montreal hace unos días mostraron el álbum completo en la plataforma NPR y desde ya amenazan con inundar páginas de blogs, aunque como siempre en estos casos, la alerta de hype está latente. Dream pop, sintetizadores al por mayor y algo de R&B hacen llamativa su propuesta, que puedes escuchar siguiendo este enlace . Más abajo el video de "Belispeak". [...]
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Bien, he estado esperando por mucho tiempo la aparicion de este material, y ahora que es momento de platicarles un poco mas a detalle sobre el debut de Purity Ring, no se ni por donde empezar, pero lo intentare. La escena musical de Canada se ha venido caracterizando por tener estos lapsos de dos años en los que derrepente comienza a emerger una cantidad enorme de musicos bastante jovenes y muy talentosos, a los cuales de inmediato se les da un segumiento bastante importante. Ya lo vimos en la decada pasada cuando el circuito lidereado por Broken Social [...]

Facebook Custom dictates that for tenth anniversaries, the traditional gift is something made from tin and the modern equivalent is aluminum. Or diamond. How on earth do you get from tin to diamond? Happily, Toronto's Paper Bag Records pays no attention to such convention and to mark their tenth year of releasing great music from both Canada and abroad, they've opted to put together three nights of shows at The Great Hall from September 27 to 29 and featuring the best of their current roster as well as a surprise and welcome return [...]
Shrines holds skyward a handful of some of the finest offerings Planet Pop can muster in 2012, yet as an "album experience" it ultimately fails to merit a new religion. It's no stretch to say Purity Ring's debut Shrines rolls into town lookin' 'n' smellin' like a Sure Thing. Even before you drop the needle, it's tempting to switch to DEFCON 1 and declare a new world order. Just read the signs. It's happening. "Meesterious-like-Roger-Moore" art-pop from an Adam & Eve dreamwave electronica duo? Roger that! Borne from silver eggs unearthed in Montreal ... the Holyland of Cohen, [...]
How does one account for the meteoric rise in popularity that Montreal duo Purity Ring has seen over the course of the past year and a half? Sure, that question might seem a tad hyperbolic, but Purity Ring has gotten further on the basis of five mp3s than most bands are lucky to get after a couple of albums and years of touring. At the beginning of 2011, Purity Ring was, for all intents and purposes, not even a thing that existed in the collective consciousness of the music world. Yet by the time their debut album Shrines [...]

Here is this week's music chart for the week ending July 22 - 28. Well we have a new #1 and it goes to my favorite Canadian act STARS ! This past week they drop another single from the upcoming album "The North" through ATO Records . All I have is that the second single is mouth-full! There is four new debuts. One being the most talked about single which is The xx. Check it out. [...]

A dark and haunting force which you shouldn't be too scared to embrace.
Purity Ring Shrines out on 7.24 Stream | MP3 | CD | Vinyl As I was looking at my calendar the other day I realized that it had been nearly a full forty-eight hours since I was last exposed to a unique, atmospheric electronic album. I was still tided over by Motion Sickness of Time Travel's cosmic soundscapes but, nonetheless, the lack of a brand new, synth-based album that was both strange and [...]

Hep kalıplar, hep başlıklar, hep tanımlar takılıp kaldıklarımız. İlişkiden korkuyorsan adına ilişki demezsin, kendi kurallarını oluşturur ona göre yaşarsın. Adına da artık ne istersen onu dersin. Ama sadece bir tanım ya da bir isim senin sevgiden ve tutkudan korkmana sebep oluyorsa işte yanlışı orda yaparsın. Sürekli ileri bakarsan önünü göremezsin. Her adımını bastığın yere bakarak atarsan zaten istediğin yere çok daha rahat gidersin. ''Haydi uzat ellerini, somurttuğum zamanlar yaptığın gibi, yanaklarımı tutup ger de güleyim.'' Maria Minerva - [...]

Over the past year and a half, Canadian future-pop duo Purity Ring have been generating a lot buzz with a string of flawless singles leading up to the release of their debut album, Shrines . Well, now the wait is over, and Shrines will be officially be released July 24th on 4AD . Purity Ring will be performing at Bottom of the Hill on September 3rd with Headaches and Evian Christ . [...]

Here is the latest video from my latest obsession Purity Ring. Purity ring- Fineshrine Related posts: Purity Ring - Fineshrine The latest from Canadian outfit Purity Ring who are set... Purity Ring- Ungirthed I can't wait to see Purity Ring in Detroit, I... Purity Ring- Loftcries I kinda hated this song the first time I heard... Purity Ring-Cartographist [...]

El día de hoy µ sique cumple dos años de vida, música, amigos, conciertos, videos, fotos, y todo eso. Estamos muy felices y queremos agradecer a todos los que nos siguen desde que empezó esto, desde hace un mes, o hasta los que se acaban de enterar de la existencia de µ sique. Decidimos hacer un playlist para celebrar, esperamos que les guste. µ 2 Evy Jane - Sayso Rhye - Open CITIZENS! - [...]