Purity Ring - Womb Album Review
It's been five years since Canadian electronic duo Purity Ring released their second album Another Eternity, but little has changed in terms of their overall sound and macabre lyrical themes now that they are here with album three: Womb.
Those breathy treble vocals are still centre-stage, though they've been transformed by a heavier use of vocal effects; that coupled with the expansive, dreamy sounds and lyrical repetition throughout gives the whole thing an echo chamber vibe - Womb really was an excellent choice of title for this record.
Rubyinsides opens the album with scattered synths and vocals so echoey they're virtually incomprehensible; but when you do hear them you'll find darkly beautiful poetry like "If I could, I would let you see through me / Hold our skin over the light to hold the heat / Flood the halls with ruby insides till we spill". The song feels kaleidoscopic, unstructured and, at times, unsettlingly jarring. We see this auditory disorder again in penultimate track Almanac, which is very similar in that the vocals and creepy lyrics are drowned by the big synths.
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