Description
Label Review.
2020 album. Synth pop/hip hop. Also available on Vinyl.
Our Overview.
After more than five years, Canadian electronic music duo Purity Ring return to announce their third album. ‘WOMB’ - which is the follow-up to 2015’s ‘Another Eternity’- is released via 4AD and is entirely produced and recorded by the band of vocalist Megan James and multi-instrumentalist/producer Corin Roddick, the Edmonton native pair is known for blending electro-pop, synth-pop, and hip-hop with rather gory song lyrics.
‘WOMB’ chronicles a quest for comfort, the search for a resting place in a world where so much is beyond our control. The striking vulnerability of ‘rubyinsides’ - “If I could, I would let you see through me” - charts a course that’s both intensely personal and deeply connected to those close to us, our kin whether by nature or nurture.
As the ground shifts beneath their feet, ‘WOMB’’s characters help one another face death, despair andworld-altering discovery with resilience and grace. For all the terrain it encompasses, ‘WOMB’’s quest culminates in ‘stardew’, a glittering, transcendent invitation to “just be where you are” - to experience the kind of powerful peace that can only be found by truly coming home.
‘WOMB’ follows Purity Ring’s 2012 internationally acclaimed and highly influential debut ‘Shrines’ and 2015’s ‘another eternity’. On ‘another eternity’, The New York Times praised the songs as “only a few steps removed from radio hits by singers like Ariana Grande and Ellie Goulding” while Rolling Stone called them “lustrous synth pop plus cavernous hip hop” and The New Yorker lauded the duo, stating that they “create electro-pop that is as warm and human as it is cold and alien, an intoxicating combination that feels boldly futuristic.”
On their own prior headlining tours, the duo accompanied their live set with a dazzling sequence of pulsating lights. The pair have also teamed up together to strike a series of crystal shapes that rested upon tall poles to generate sounds during the show. Incorporating these mesmerising lights and sounds into their show is part of Purity Ring’s mystique.
Tracklisting: rubyinsides / pink lightning / peacefall / i like the devil / femia / sinew / vehemence / silkspun / almanac / stardew