![Purity Ring, Blue Hawaii & Spaceandtime @ Ritual [April 2, 2013]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4867873_lg.jpg)
Did this show really happened on Tuesday night? All of a sudden it felt like a Friday night show. Went to a sold out show at Ritual. For those that couldn't get in, it was mind-blowing. Playing at the show: • Purity Ring • Blue Hawaii • Spaceandtime Noticed that all three acts were all duo based! [...]
![Playlist for Photogmusic LIVE [April 1, 2013]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4864476_lg.jpg)
Happy first of April (April Fool's Day) and Easter Monday. I was suppose to have a phone interview with one member of Purity Ring on my radio show . But due to rehearsing for the start of the tour, the interview didn't happen. So I had to scurry to make a load whack of songs to play for the one hour. If you missed the show today, have a listen ! Part one: Part two: Part [...]
![Playlist for Photogmusic LIVE on CHUO FM [April 1, 2013]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4871250_lg.jpg)
Happy first of April (April Fool's Day) and Easter Monday. I was suppose to have a phone interview with one member of Purity Ring on my radio show . But due to rehearsing for the start of the tour, the interview didn't happen. So I had to scurry to make a load whack of songs to play for the one hour. If you missed the show today, have a listen ! Part one: Part two: Part [...]
For a country with relatively minimal amounts of jagged coastline, Canada's certainly producing some invigoratingly edgy music at the minute. In fact, I'd go so far as to throw hyperbole to the wind and suggest them there Canucks are, contemporarily speaking, just about the most refreshing artists actively out there. And Prince Innocence – the Toronto/ Montréal pairing comprising Talvi Faustmann and Josh McIntyre – go some way to becoming the reigning monarch of our hearts. 'Rama still prevails, though Golden Hour runs 'em close. The inevitable parallel, however, will perhaps always be compatriots Purity Ring though as Faustmann initially coos of [...]
Richmond Lam Canadian music is quite often equated with rootsier stylings - which to be fair we do a lot of and well - but we can also get downright trippy when the mood strikes and a couple of the country's finest exemplars of this are back with new records this Spring. Montreal's Besnard Lakes have completed the follow-up to 20102s The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night and if the title - Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO - is any indication, [...]
![Best of 2012: Canadian Albums [TOP 12]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4696119_lg.jpg)
The time has finally come and probably waiting for this? In case you missed out my radio show on CHUO FM at 3pm. I give to you my " Best of " Top 12 Canadian albums of 2012. I know what I picked may not be what people weren't thinking. It's my list and sticking to it! But hope to give some conversation about it. HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Check out the Top 12. [...]
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 , [...]
Is it early?!! It's that time of the year where everyone compiles their best of 2012 list. I do have my best of albums (Canadian and Non-Canadian) but it's still in a work in progress. For now I decided to make my list of the best live shows I've been to in 2012. Since it's 2012, why not make it a Top 12. There will be some of the shows that didn't take place in Ottawa but was simply "WOW!" when I happened to catch that show. So here is my top 12 shows [...]
![Playlist/Interview: Photogmusic LIVE on CHUO FM 89.1FM [November 12, 2012]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4614902_lg.jpg)
Today was a great show at CHUO ! My special guest in the studio was Taylor Norris . She was in the studio to talk about the opening of the new bar called Olive Bar happening this Thursday. Also I did a phone interview with Diamond Rings . Check it out! Here is the playlist: Hilotrons - Venus At My Backdoor Purity Ring - Crawlersout [...]
It is the last week of August. This means it is the last week of summer. Here is this week singles chart for the week ending August 26 - September 1. This week's #1 goes to Crystal Castles with Plague. Having found a Youtube posting of their recent Reading Festival. I had to make them #1. There are new debuts from Feist, A.C. Newman and Yamantaka // Sonic Titan. Check it out. This [...]
Here is this week's music singles chart for the week ending August 19 - 25. So I had to make this #1 this week. It goes to Dirty Beaches. The single "Elizabeth's Theme" is taking from Vancouver's Kingfisher Bluez single-sided singles club. That won't come out until October. Check out this week's chart! This Week Last Week Total Weeks Artist Songs [...]
Here is this week's music singles chart for the week ending August 12 - 18. It is still a few weeks left before summer is going to end. This week's #1 single goes to UK's The xx. Looks like there is high anticipation when Coexist drops on September 11, 2012. I prefer Chained more than Angels. There are four new debuts from Jens Lekman and Wild Nothing. Check it out! This Week Last Week [...]
Here is this week's music singles chart for the week ending August 5 - 11. After two weeks at #1, Stars gets bumped off by Ottawa's The White Wires. This past week the band just dropped their new album WWIII and why not make them this week's #1 spot. I love these two tracks by The White Wires. There is three new debuts. Check it out! This Week Last Week Total [...]
Here is this week's music singles chart for the week ending July 29 - August 4. There is no change in this week's #1. Stars is still #1 with that long title song from the upcoming album "The North" on ATO Records . There is a new debut from Crystal Castles. Everyone is going crazy on the new song. Check it out! This Week Last Week Total Weeks Artist [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Here is this week's chart for the week ending July 15 - 21. There is no change with this week's #1 single. I am still loving the two new Blur tracks. While there are four new debuts from the likes of The White Wires and Frank Ocean. Check it out! This Week Last Week Total Weeks Artist Songs [...]
If you have listened closely to the lyrics of "Fineshrine" you know some weird shit goes down. Ditto X 2 for the video. But weird or not, I keep watching it over and over.
Our deep admiration for the musical genius that is Purity Ring doesn't stop with their music. Behold the new video for "Fineshrine," the latest single off their debut album Shrines . The piece is yet another feather in the cap for the Canadian duo. It's haunting use of chiaroscuro paired with carefully placed, fantastical imagery highlights themes of pain, loss, desire and imagination. This is no happy-go-lucky video, but it stays incredibly true to the song. As Sean pointed out in June , this is without question the band's best [...]
![[MP3] Purity Ring – “Fineshrine”](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4379452_lg.jpg)
get a little closer let it fold, cut open my sternum and pull my little ribs around you ♫ Purity Ring - Fineshrine I trading jams with a girl the other day when I asked if she knew Purity Ring she said she didn't but that it was a horrible name for a band. She insisted it was. Fair enough on never hearing of them but that kind of disparaging talk about these freak-groove masters just didn't sit well with me. Sure, she was just uninformed. She didn't know. But people need to know.
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