With their first single, "Ungirthed," Canadian electro duo Purity Ring made quite the debut: delivering, perhaps, the pop-song of the year. From hereon out, the bar's going to be held pretty high, and "Belispeak" is their first new material since.
Taken from a forthcoming Fat Possum split alongside fellow Canadian breakout act Braids, "Belispeak" again finds Corin Roddick warping Megan James' voice in an array of ways; bending pitch and chopping it up and making it percussion. Like witch-house types, their music sounds terrifying and ghastly whilst built from club-friendly sounds. But it's run through the filter of bubblegum-pop, and the result is singular, strange, and easy-on-the-ear.
There's a lot of "Grandma" in James' bizarre lyrics; which may or may not be as cut-up as her voice. "In my strings and with my speech," James sings, "drill little holes into my eyelids/that I might see you when I sleep." Is this her, as songwriter, hoping to make sense of her subconscious and its terror dreams?
Purity Ring "Belispeak" (via Stereogum)
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