Purity Ring announce forthcoming self-titled album

“This is one of those songs that came into being with ease and immediacy,” the duo explains. “We were in a hazy forest in the mountains, and the beat felt just like the cloud we were in. It was succinct and ready for the type of lyrics that imbued places we dream of, places we wish we could exist in, places we see everyday but are just out of reach. In the end, this song is meant as a sort of spell in the way that maybe we can reach these places if we watch our steps carefully, if we take the time to build them for ourselves.”

Purity Ring’s self-titled fourth album serves as their immersive release to date. Long known for their fusion of body horror imagery and ethereal electronics, the duo now shift their focus from the physical to the fantastical, crafting a concept album that serves as the soundtrack to an imagined RPG. Inspired by games like Nier Automata and Final Fantasy X, the record tells the story of two hapless characters — embodiments of mj and Corin — on a journey to build a kinder world amid the ruins of a broken one.

Tracklist:

1. relict
2. many lives
3. part ii
4. place of my own
5. red the sunrise
6. memory ruins
7. mistral
8. the long night
9. Imanocean
10. between you and shadows
11. mj odyssey
12. broken well
13. glacier ::in memory of rs::