Listen to Purity Ring’s New Singles, “peacefall” and “pink lightning”
Photo by Carson Davis Brown
After three years of radio silence following their standalone single “Asido,” Purity Ring are back with a new album and, given Wednesday’s release of two new tracks after lead single “stardew,” it seems they’re eager to get back in the game.
The two singles, “peacefall” and “pink lightning,” present the band as still capable of producing diverse and strange work using the language of twinkling trap-pop and reverberating synths. “peacefall” is reminiscent of their work on Another Eternity, toying with the ideas presented by (or perhaps appropriated by Purity Ring’s previous work) the works of pop acts like Katy Perry and Ellie Goulding with a uniquely sinister twist. The lyric video depicts one half of the duo, Megan James, chain-stitching the lyrics of the video into fabric.