“I know it seems far, but just be where you are,” Megan James implores on “stardew,” the lead single from Purity Ring’s latest record WOMB.
It’s a self-proclaimed “sex jam,” sure, but delineated entirely on James and Corin Roddick’s terms: less occupied with the obvious notions of the act but more with the idea that each of us carry infinite realms within us.
Even if "stay where you are" seems oddly prophetic now, there’s something reassuring in it. That very sense of comfort, of negotiating safety between the cataclysmic and seraphic, is the thread that ties WOMB together.
It’s Purity Ring’s first full-length in over five years, their most labored-over work to date, and one that was worth every minute of toil.
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