#6 - Purity Ring –
Shrines
It’s a good thing this album came out when it did. In a year
when I was looking forward to the fellow-up to Passion Pit’s Manners,
only to be immensely disappointed, Purity
Ring gave me what I was looking for. Shrines is full of melodic and
infectious songs that leaves you yearning for more.
This album shares only a portion of the levity Manners
did. While upbeat, the tracks are quite dark. Like dancing with your shadow, it’s
cheerful, but not overwhelmingly so. It also manages to be contain some of the
sexiest music of the year.
What really makes Shrines stand out though, is how it
feels like it’s breathing. Waves of cascading synth could easily become annoying,
but instead it links each song to one another. The lungs on the front of the album cover are
well placed.
As far as album art goes, Shrines contains some of
the year’s best . Bewilderingly cute and haunting characters – not unlike those
found in the music.
Top Tracks: Crawlersout, Ungirthed, Lofticries, Grandloves,
Belispeak, Saltkin
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