Jordan Jeffares, the mind behind Atlanta's Snowden , de-trapifies Purity Ring's "Fineshrine" into a calming acoustic version fit for a night by the fire. Get comfortable and stream the cover below. MP3: Snowden - "Fineshrine (Purity Ring Cover)"
The creative coming together of a Lebanese national, a French producer, and a Chilean filmmaker in the unendingly artistic city of Montréal will perhaps inevitably make for an immediately singular project. And that is precisely what we are presented with in Mo7it Al-Mo7it – the very first recorded memoir of this, the trio's ongoing Jerusalem In My Heart endeavour. First formulated back in 2005 by the former, Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, this début compact disc incarnation is something of an exploratory, and with that highly expansive listening experience as the faraway exoticism of the Arab world meets [...]
It's quite unmistakably en vogue to go reworking contemporary R'n'B tracks at the minute and whether that be David Longstreth's Dirty Projectors giving Usher's heady Climax a mildly radical once-over or AlunaGeorge redoing Frank Ocean's Thinkin Bout You, the results can prove somewhat inconclusive. So when 4AD's Montréal duo Purity Ring took to Soulja Boy's Grammy in the wake of the awards of the same name, the jury was bound to take its sweet time about it. Of course elements of hip hop, post-R'n'B , and so forth all factored into the making of Megan James and [...]
It wasn’t a great start to the night. The crowd this last Tuesday at Union Transfer was a motley bunch of teenagers, yuppies, punks, and college kids, and the lack of common ground between many of the groups meant a fair amount of animosity in the early goings. Many people complained passive-aggressively (or full-on aggressively) as the room filled up and people started squeezing up to the front. (I myself got quite a dressing-down while I inched forward and craned my neck to get a better view.) To make matters worse, opening [...]
Jarri reckons this latest electropop-hemmed hunk from great Danish songstress Mø sounds rather redolent of Purity Ring though if so, it's indubitably more of a Fineshrine than it is Ungirthed; one to enwrap in your dismembered "little ribs" for prized safekeeping. With a thin patina of snow currently lacing the streets, Glass plays off that same belatedly festive feel as did fellow Scandi heartthrob Frida Sundemo's latest, Snow , though that's where the similarities end as Karen Ørsted melts the glistering cascades of scale to its beginning into a more pulsating, and indeed scintillating electroclash-Zero backdrop [...]
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Top 9 songs I listened to on Itunes this year. (Fuck 10? What makes 10 so special?) 9. Billie Holiday - "These Foolish Things" If I could die and be buried in a song, it would be this one. Therefore, perhaps rather morbidly, I guess I listened to it pretty much every day on the bus. 8. Antony and Bryce Dessner - "I Was Young When I Left Home" It’s raining outside. Find a mud [...]
Win our top 31 albums of 2012 ! Read the original review . "Transcendence" is the best word in music criticism. Originality, precision or talent are all well and good, but if you're capable of transcending a culture with art, you will have an attention of the masses. Purity Ring came from a weird place. The Canadian duo emerged from a cavern of genres where experimental electro-pop, southern hip-hop, trap rap and witch-house intertwine in unconventional and off-setting ways. On their début LP Shrines , [...]
2012 had more than a handful of impressive debut full-lengths, including Alabama Shakes' Boys & Girls , Porcelain Raft's Strange Weekend , and Jack White's Blunderbuss . The tracks below don't even begin to scratch the surface of debuts this year, but these are a few of my favorites. The buzz band of 2011 did not disappoint. If you have yet to give this record a chance, you're only hurting yourself. It's more than just "Southern rock". It's rock and soul [...]
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It would be easy to confuse 21-year-old instrumentalist Corin Roddick with a much more experienced producer. According to the label 4AD, Roddick began experimenting with hip-hop and R&B beats during a six month tour in 2009 or 2010, and shortly thereafter got Gobble Gobble band mate Megan James to lay down vocals for what would become the song "Ungirthed," released in January of 2011 under the moniker Purity Ring. Depending on when you calculate the start date, that's somewhere around a year, though more likely less. With that kind of seeming effortlessness it was almost inevitable [...]
"Fineshrine" is a song that was released quite a while back, but it's gaining a lot of new momentum as Purity Ring's star continues to climb higher and higher . The Canadian dream-pop duo have been crafting their shimmery synth beats since 2010, but with the recent release of their excellent debut, Shrines, they are hitting everyone's radar in a major way. "Fineshrine" is a perfect peek at what Shrines has to offer: perky drum sounds and hip-hop beats, the high, elegant vocals of Megan James, and playful, unexpected lyricism ("cut open my sternum and pull my little ribs around [...]
Purity Ring - Shrines By Russell Warfield The really clever thing about the name Purity Rin g is that it’s so easy not to click with its irony for quite some time. Everything on Shrines is so slick and clean, and Megan James’ vocals so glisteningly modest, that it’s easy to let the album wash over you – despite its filthy electronic glitches insistently throbbing underneath the grace – as the naturally clinical output of a band with a name so white. That’s until you start listening [...]
"The album is ablaze, with James’s disturbing images irrevocably intertwined with Roddick’s soundscapes..." Purity Ring | Shrines Eagerly anticipated as the album that will cement Purity Ring’s status as one of the best new bands of 2012, Shrines does not disappoint. The first full length release of Canadian duo Megan James and Corrin Roddick is a haunting, vigorous testament to the talent that the band possesses. Featuring words written by Megan James but never intended for an album, the lyrics are reminiscent of a Tim Burton film, but the music ensures that [...]
Purity Ring’s debut album, Shrines, fills the room with airy dream pop with club-worthy beats and samples throughout.
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 [...]
It certainly feels like Purity Ring' s debut LP Shrines has took a long time coming. And in a way it has, ever since early 2011 with "Ungirthed" to be precise. continue reading >>
I'll tell you right now: Purity Ring 's debut album Shrines is quite easily one of the top five albums I've heard all year, and I've heard some stunning fucking albums. Around the LBYB offices it was one of the most-anticipated LPs of the year. We were actually all in the middle of a Skype call when our advanced copy came through and we each (me) let out the screech of a pre-pubescent girl at the sight of Justin Bieber . According to my [...]
« Pop » takes on a whole endless new definition when the vibrant sound waves of Purity Ring’s debut album shroud you in a veil of poignant bass lines and its net of nimbly strung lyrics. Purity Ring - Shrines (2012) 9.0/10 Last Gang Records « Pop » takes on a whole endless new definition when the vibrant sound waves of Purity Ring’s debut album shroud you in a veil of poignant bass lines and its net of nimbly strung lyrics. Shrines’ mingling of electronic synthesizer, beat [...]
Purity Ring have unveiled the second video crafted for the forthcoming Shrines . Young Replicant directed this piece for "Fineshrine," a surrealist clip that translates the track's visceral, anatomically-heavy lyrics into a story of bruised and bandaged dreamscapes. Shrines is available July 24 on 4AD / Last Gang . +MP3: Purity Ring - Fineshrine Connect to Purity Ring: Facebook // Twitter
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