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I feel like I stepped into a haunted house brought to you Purity Ring and the Bowery Ballroom on Saturday night. Megan James and Corin Roddick played a set of their tailored brand of futuristic electro-pop as part of the Downtown Festival and it was not only the music that set the stage. The hour-long performance enveloped the room and transported the crowd to the eerie, but beautiful world of the up-and-coming Canadian duo’s debut album Shrines . [...]

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! [...]

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 [...]

There is a distance in all of us and between all of us, one that can only be bridged with true belief in another human being. Trust is something that can only develop where pain and hardships have been, and it's something that, when created, is more powerful than any ocean and continent keeping you apart. This is the thesis of  Untogether , the stunning debut album and second release from Montreal's Blue Hawaii . Consisting of BRAIDS singer Raphaelle Standell-Preston  and electronic artist [...]

When Blue Hawaii do crawl out from the Montréal underground as they quite categorically will with their sophomore full-length, Untogether , there will commensurately undoubtedly, I assure you be this one comparison to plague them forever more. And that will be with one Claire Boucher. It'll be lazily articulated and repeatedly expressed, and it will from then on always be there. Yes, Raphaelle Standell-Preston – who sporadically floats away from BRAIDS to combine with Alex Cowan in becoming Blue Hawaii – can sound vaguely reminiscent of Grimes, as she unquestionably does at times [...]

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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December 18, 2012 As sure as eggs is eggs 15 - 11 follows 20 - 16 when you're compiling an end of the year chart of the stand-out albums from the last 12 months. Here then are the next five in our sequence. 15 - Scott Walker - Bish Bosch One of the more recent releases to make it into the chart, Paul Stephen Gettings had this to say about Walker's [...]

Con el 2013 pisándonos los talones, el equipo de   indieHearts  hace un repaso, acompañado de sus pensamientos e inquietudes, de los mejores 50 discos de 2012: 50.  The Magnetic Fields - Love at the Bottom of the Sea Si hay alguien que puede jactarse de haber escrito canciones de (des)amor es el barítono y frontman de The Magnetic Fields : Stephin Merritt . Con 69 Love Songs  a 13 años [...]

Montreal's Purity Ring release glossy electronic monument Shrines--a devotion to what? Occasionally catchy tunes yield few answers. 02Fineshrine.mp3 [...]

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Por Tomás Fernández Fiks  Si viniera algún desentendido de otra época y nos pidiera un ejemplo de música en el año 2012 probablemente Shrines sería una buena elección. Lo primero que se siente al escuchar el disco debut de Purity Ring es cuán actual es;  como si en ese compilado de once canciones se encontrara un resumen estético de, por lo menos, una parte importante de la música indie del presente que se podría rotular de forma muy abarcativa bajo la denominación “electro pop”. [...]

Sometime in the beginning of 2011, Purity Ring’s “Ungirthed” started circulating through blogs and mix CDs and podcasts, firmly entrenching its sputtering saccharine sound in the minds of those who like to keep abreast of the outer edges of pop music. There was a vinyl single released, along with a couple of additional songs to keep the masses sated while the mysterious band – who actually turned out to be a twosome from Edmonton, Alberta – prepared their debut album, Shrines , which was released last week through indie stalwart 4AD. All previous singles – the aforementioned [...]

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 [...]

Purity Ring are coming to Bristol in November so thought it'd be rather nice of me to do a little review of their new album 'Shrines' the debut release from the Montreal based duo. A dark and brooding synth laden record that sits halfway between Grimes and Crystal Castles . A mash of strained synths spliced with vocals from Megan James framed by glitchy electro elements and a distorted bass line, all combine to create a dense and heavy sound that envelopes you and pulls you into the Purity Ring world. Which I imagine is [...]

Purity Ring is not alone. With Frank Ocean crawling up the Billboard charts from “underground” Oddity , and Vampire Weekend igniting the gentrified swayers at Pitckfork summer music festival earlier this month, Purity Ring’s Shrines presents itself at a fashionable hour. Toeing the line between marginalized music crafted for the ever-blurring community of indie henchmen versus the Power 106 bangers (sorry you out-of-towners) we drive slow to, is the shared, scattered space that Purity Ring finds itself in . During an age where computer music can make a fifteen-year-old famous and Justin [...]

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• Purity Ring - "Grandloves" (feat. Young Magic)

Halifax/Montreal-based duo Purity Ring  (though originally from Edmonton Alberta) consists of members Corin Roddick and Megan James. The electro-pop duo have released their debut album, titled Shrines,on July 24,2012 with Last Gang Records / 4AD . The album contains the internationally renowned tra ck  Ungirthed  which the band self released last year. When I first listened to the band last summer, the thing that really stood out was the dreamy ethereal vocals of Megan James. The tracks on Shrines are filled with amazingly dreamy electro-pop synths, while toying with R&B, Pop and [...]

Shrines is out now. Watch 'Fineshrine' here. Catch Purity Ring on their North American tour. Like Purity Ring on Facebook. Follow Purity Ring on Twitter. Purchase Purity Ring items via Insound. Photographs by wagz2it. [...]

Purity Ring's approach to synth pop on Shrines blurs the line that separates dark and cute. While it brings the new LP some unique qualities, the overall experience of these eleven tracks is a bit one-dimensional. WATCH THE REVIEW

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 [...]