Megan James sighs gory lyrics over looped percussion and vocals, sounding like the Cocteau Twins trapped in a nightmarish rave
Canadian electro-twosome Purity Ring take their name from a piece of jewellery worn by Christian teens as a pledge to abstain from sex before marriage. It’s a fitting association for their icily self-contained music. Singer Megan James, whose Twitter handle is the speaks-for-itself @waryqueen, drifts across the stage as if in a dream, unreachable; keyboardist Corin Roddick has literally put himself on a pedestal, where he’s securely lodged behind a semicircle of stalk-like lights that ping on and off when he touches them.
The most evident reference point for their sound is the Cocteau Twins, whose influence touches even song titles: Lofticries, Belispeak and Fineshrine make it into tonight’s set (but not, sadly, Crawlersoul or Saltkin). Each is brief – 14 songs are jammed into this shortish show – and dense with percussive and vocal loops.
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