On another eternity, Purity Ring displays a willingness to more intrepidly embrace the pop underpinnings of their debut.
The album’s handful of capable melodies never quite balances out its bizarre impulses or the utter lack of thematic unity.
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by Slant Staff
Drizzy goes disco, or rather mid-aughts disco, on the latest track from his forthcoming album.
When Corin Roddick lays off the sequencer buttons, as he does on “Shuck,” the results are hypnotic, rhythmic, and effortless.
There’s an undeniably sinister undertone to Purity Ring’s new single, “Belispeak.”
The choice of violent imagery belies the apparent sweetness of the group’s nine members and the single’s simply massive hooks.