Purity Ring (Music)

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Adorn me in feathers from dead birds...

Purity Ring are an electronic music duo from Canada, made up of vocalist Megan James and producer/instrumentalist Corin Riddick.

Their music is best described as playful and chilled out, complemented by James' surreal lyrics.

Discography:

Albums:

Album Title Drop: For Shrines, "Listen closely, closely to the floor/ Emitting all its graces through the pores/ You make a fine shrine in me/ You build a fine shrine in me" from "fineshrines". For another eternity, "Not even into/another eternity/will stop your lovely orbiting" from "Begin Again".
all lowercase letters: another eternity and all the song titles on said album.
Eye Scream: "Belispeak" includes the lovely line "drill little holes into my eyelids, that I might see you when I sleep".

Lighter and Softer: another eternity in comparison to Shrines; still lyrically strange, but the album sounds significantly sweeter than the first one did.
Lyrical Dissonance: "Cut open my sternum, and pull my little ribs around you...", contrasted with the upbeat music of "Fineshrine." This sort of thing is prevalent in every song; Megan James has a very sweet voice and the music is often lively, but the lyrics are extremely morbid and strange.
Lyrics/Video Mismatch: "begin again" is a semi-abstract love song about an on-again off-again relationship. The music video is a deeply abstract story about a young woman grown in the roots of a tree made of meat, who is sacrificed to give an old woman a new body to live in. Probably.
Portmanteau: Most of the song titles on Shrines.
Solar and Lunar: Begin Again has this motif. "My moon o my moon/Not even into/Another eternity/Will you stop your lovely orbiting"

Word Salad Lyrics: "Sleep is a welcome gadget/ in our headbondhood/ The crawling animals will seek/ all things warm all things moist/ I will relentlessly shame myself/in rest in wake in front of/ my truly born beloved/for here I lie in wait/ Hush little heart."
Yandere: Because of the surreal lyrics, many of their songs (especially Shuck and Fineshrine) have this undertone.