PURITY RING
Release ‘Better Off Alone’
Cover of 1999 Alice DJ classic
WOMB – out now via 4AD / Rhythmethod
PRAISE FOR WOMB
Debuted #1 Billboard Electronic Chart
“WOMB is some of Purity Ring’s strongest work, a confident and singular statement from a band often imitated over the past decade.” – Pitchfork
“Wondrously dreamy as ever” – The Music, ????
“Maybe the otherworldly sounds of Purity Ring are precisely what we need to escape into right about now.” – The FADER
“Their most beguiling to date; it’s a twisted comfort blanket of a record weaved with a wider variety of sonic textures than in the past.” – DAZED
“Brims with textured electro-pop as crystalline and vast as that of the band’s previous LPs.”
– AV Club
“Purity Ring’s third album is a shimmering escape, and as good a self-isolation soundtrack as you’re likely to find – Loud & Quiet
“The pulsating track finds the band in search of respite in the midst of ever-changing chaos.” – Billboard on ‘stardew’
“Rarely has such booming sound felt so meditative…Just as the lyrics do, the dark fade reminds us to hold onto the words of people who care for us.” – Consequence of Sound on ‘peacefall’
Following the April release of their third album WOMB, Purity Ring today release a cover of Alice DJ’s 1999 eurodance hit ‘Better Off Alone’ via 4AD / Remote Control. The duo have flipped the euphoric trance classic into a signature, ghostly Purity Ring track – watch the video, directed by Andrew Barchilon below.
“We have wanted to cover this song for years and it felt like it was time. It’s been an influence on how we write and feel music since the beginning, and so for all the ways that joy and longing move, the truth is out there.”
WOMB debuted at #1 on the Billboard Electronic Albums chart and top 20 on seven Billboard charts. The ten songs are entirely written, recorded, produced and mixed by the duo of Megan James and Corin Roddick, and the album chronicles a quest for comfort and the search for a resting place in a world where so much is beyond our control.
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 for “creat[ing] electro-pop that is as warm and human as it is cold and alien, an intoxicating combination that feels boldly futuristic.”
WOMB is available digitally, on CD and standard back vinyl via 4AD / Rhythmethod
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