Purity Ring: Shrines – review

(4AD)Such is the glut of ethereal electropop, new acts risk drifting past with all the unearthly beauty of a cheap air freshener. So what a pleasure that Canadian duo Purity Ring have sidestepped wafty, dream-pop cliche to make an album that repays exploration. Like fellow 4AD debutante Grimes, they hold melodic immediacy and twitchy esoterica in careful tension: Fineshrine strikes a compromise between gleaming hooks and electronic fidgets; Cartographist layers warped vocals on to doomy bass. Th...

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