Purity Ring Announce Australian Tour Dates
Electronic pop pioneers PURITY RING are set to deliver their ethereal concert experience in Australia this June – their first local tour dates in 10 years – with headline shows in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and an appearance at Dark Mofo. With the news arrives new single ‘lemonlime’, lifted from their self titled album sessions.
Coming full circle with the impetus for their latest record is today’s ‘lemonlime’. The glitch-haze number showcases Purity Ring’s singular sound with dappled percussion and synth flourishes propelled by twinkling arpeggios. The first song written for their self-titled album, and the last release of this era, ‘lemonlime’ is a song of survival – a sad dream, if you wake up. An extension of the album’s overarching theme and search for goodness in the face of plight, it speaks of caring for someone with chronic illness, imagining a place we can all rest.
Set to showcase their generational hits live amongst the latest offering, PURITY RING mark their grand return to Australia across June with tickets on sale now and all tour routing details below. Their recent self-titled album is the most expansive the duo has ever sounded, with their visual identity deeply seeded in the sound of the record. Throughout they explore creative frontiers that are brand new to them yet profoundly self-actualising.
Celebrated across NME, Rolling Stone, Paste, DIY, Northern Transmissions, FLOOD, The Line Of Best Fit, and many more, this is a record about letting go, embracing change, and dreaming forward into something freer.
PRAISE
“…a self-titled, 13-song project that encapsulates all the delicacy, style and sharp celestiality that have long made the Canadian pair a cult favorite.”
BILLBOARD
“After a decade of exploring surreal synth-pop and dreamy electronics, Purity Ring’s self-titled album, Purity Ring, feels like a reset button. It’s not a total reinvention, but it’s definitely a moment of reflection.”
MXDWN
“Purity Ring have returned with a self-titled fourth album, and it’s a thrilling evolution of their unmistakable sound. Fans of their breakthrough debut ‘Shrines’ and 2015’s ‘Another Eternity’ will discover something both familiar and strikingly fresh here.”
DIY MAG
PURITY RING AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES
Spotify Pre-Sale commences 10am AEST, Monday 13 April
Artist Pre-Sale commences 10am AEST, Tuesday 14 April
General on-sale commences 10am AEST, Wednesday 15 April
WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE THE TIVOLI (OPEN SEASON) BRISBANE TICKETS
THURSDAY 11 JUNE NORTHCOTE THEATRE MELBOURNE TICKETS
SATURDAY 13 JUNE METRO THEATRE SYDNEY TICKETS
Also appearing at DARK MOFO in Hobart, Tasmania.
ABOUT PURITY RING
Purity Ring released their first three albums on the legendary label 4AD, beginning with Shrines, which earned Pitchfork’s Best New Music honours and was shortlisted for the Polaris Prize. Their breakout track ‘Fineshrine’ is certified gold in the US, and ‘Grandloves’ was sampled by Playboi Carti on his Die Lit track ‘Fell In Love’. In recent years, they remixed ‘Knife Party’ as the lead single for the 20th anniversary reissue of Deftones’ classic album White Pony and collaborated with industrial pop duo Black Dresses on the track ‘Shines’. Since emerging in the early 2010s, Corin and mj have made a lasting impact on the electronic pop landscape, building a world all their own with immersive self-produced albums and designing groundbreaking visual live show experiences. Their latest era of self-released music is a step fully into a vision they’ve been circling for years – one that feels vast, unrestrained, and true to who they’ve become manifested on their self-titled fourth album.
purity ring LP marks the beginning of a bold new chapter as the band’s most immersive release to date. Long known for their fusion of body horror imagery and ethereal electronics, the duo now shift their focus from the physical to the fantastical, crafting a concept album that serves as the soundtrack to an imagined RPG. Inspired by games like Nier Automata and Final Fantasy X, the record tells the story of two hapless characters — embodiments of mj and Corin — on a journey to build a kinder world amid the ruins of a broken one. But this is no escapist fantasy: it is the first step of forbidden dreaming, of imagining a place where the vulnerable are heeded, where grief is spoken aloud and held collectively, where family is a verb rather than a noun, where hope and home can bloom together.
