Purity Ring Announce First New Album in Five Years, Share Bright Lead Single “Stardew”
WOMB is out April 3 on 4AD
Photo by Carson Davis Brown
Influential Canadian synth-pop duo Purity Ring will return with their first new album in over half a decade on April 3, when 4AD releases WOMB. Megan James and Corin Roddick have also shared their forthcoming third album’s lead single, closing cut “Stardew,” and announced an extensive North American tour that includes two-night stands at Brooklyn Steel in New York City and The Palladium in Los Angeles.
WOMB is wholly written, recorded, produced, and mixed by James and Roddick, and its 10 tracks comprise “a quest for comfort and the search for a resting place in a world where so much is beyond our control,” per a press release. The album follows Purity Ring’s 2012 breakout debut Shrines and 2015’s Another Eternity, as well as 2017 one-off “Asido,” which doesn’t appear on WOMB.
“Stardew” sounds of a piece with Another Eternity, which found James and Roddick moving beyond the trap-beat body horror of Shrines and appealing to a wider audience with their glossy, increasingly pop-oriented soundscapes. The song’s title, lyrics and instrumentation each evoke the celestial, with James singing, “Drive me like we daydream / to the edge of where you start / Leave me in the afterglow / The dew of dying stars,” over Roddick’s equally cosmic house beat, all sandwiched between the delicate tinkling of a music box.
Listen to “Stardew” and see the details of WOMB below, then find Purity Ring’s 2020 tour dates further down. You can preorder their new album here.
WOMB Tracklist:
01. rubyinsides
02. pink lightning
03. peacefall
04. i like the devil
05. femia
06. sinew
07. vehemence
08. silkspun
09. almanac
10. stardew
