Purity Ring

Floating assertively into its own cloudy, indefinable genre, electronic duo Purity Ring’s debut album turns musical narrative toward the uncanny.

Through R&B and hip-hop sensibilities verging on the best approach to dubstep, vocalist Megan James spins fantasy against lyrics oriented within the physical and organic realm.

Tracks “Belispeak” and “Shuck” speak to the scenery surrounding a naive tribe girl navigating an unpredictable wilderness. “Ungirthed” and “Grandloves” express a rapid impatience to emerge from innocence, unscathed and with truth intact.

Instrumentalist Corin Roddick manipulates James’ small vocals to a nearly ghoulish depth, weaving staggered percussion and bass on dreamy tracks like “Cartographist” to make distorted grammar creepily familiar.

Between the album’s pensive highs and lows, we’ll find solace in the pure girl’s most imaginative and innocent intentions.

By Rachael Stuart