[POSTPONED: April 21, 2021] Purity Ring [postponed from May 13, 2020; moved to November 12, 2021]
When Purity Ring cancelled their March 2020 dates due to COVID, they cleverly pushed their show back over a year. It wasn’t far enough. The duo has had to push their show to the fall now.
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Purity Ring is a duo from Edmonton–multi-instrumentalist/producer Corin Roddick and vocalist Megan James.
They put out a couple of albums and then disappeared.
I rather enjoy the way Wikipedia describes their sound
a combination of pop and hip-hop styles and James’ “childlike” vocals and “macabre”, “gory” lyrics, that she takes from “books and books full of things she’s written” in the past. Their music utilizes down-pitched, distorted vocals and percussive and vocal loops. A creative key to their sound is a sometimes aggressive use of a volume regulating technique called “sidechaining,” in which the rhythm of one instrument affects the volume of another.
After a five year hiatus, they returned in 2020 with a new album WOMB, just in time to have their tour postponed.
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