Purity Ring

After more than five years, Purity Ring returned with their third album, WOMB, released on April 3, 2020 via 4AD. WOMB was entirely produced and recorded by the duo of Megan James and Corin Roddick.

WOMB chronicles a quest for comfort, the search for a resting place in a world where so much is beyond our control. The striking vulnerability of 'rubyinsides' - “If I could, I would let you see through me” - charts a course that’s both intensely personal and deeply connected to those close to us, our kin whether by nature or nurture. As the ground shifts beneath their feet, WOMB’s characters help one another face death, despair, and world-altering discovery with resilience and grace.  For all the terrain it encompasses, WOMB’s quest culminates in 'stardew', a glittering, transcendent invitation to “just be where you are” - to experience the kind of powerful peace that can only be found by truly coming home.

WOMB follows Purity Ring’s 2012 internationally-acclaimed and highly influential debut Shrines and 2015’s another eternity. On another eternity, The New York Times praised the songs as “only a few steps removed from radio hits by singers like Ariana Grande and Ellie Goulding” while Rolling Stone called them “lustrous synth pop plus cavernous hip hop” and The New Yorker lauded the duo for “creat[ing] electro-pop that is as warm and human as it is cold and alien, an intoxicating combination that feels boldly futuristic.

Past Shows


Jun
17
th
2022
First Avenue
Jun
17
th
2022
First Avenue

Purity Ring

(rescheduled + moved from Palace Theatre)
with ekkstacy
Nov
1
st
2021
Palace Theatre
Nov
1
st
2021
Palace Theatre
postponed

Purity Ring

(rescheduled + moved to First Avenue)
with Dawn Richard
Jun
9
th
2015
Mainroom
Jun
9
th
2015
Mainroom

Purity Ring

with Braids and Born Gold
Jun
9
th
2015
Mainroom
Jun
9
th
2015
Mainroom

Purity Ring

SECOND SHOW ADDED!
with Braids and Born Gold
May
2
nd
2013
Mainroom
May
2
nd
2013
Mainroom

Purity Ring

with Blue Hawaii
Sep
14
th
2012
Mainroom
Sep
14
th
2012
Mainroom

Purity Ring

with Headaches and Evian Christ
Jul
15
th
2012
Mainroom
Jul
15
th
2012
Mainroom

Dirty Projectors

with Purity Ring
Oct
13
th
2011
7th St Entry
Oct
13
th
2011
7th St Entry

Neon Indian

with Com Truise and Purity Ring

More Shows

Jun
15
th
7th St Entry

Samantha Crain

May
2
nd
Amsterdam Bar & Hall

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Mar
15
th
Amsterdam Bar & Hall

Maude Latour

with MARIS
May
24
th
Fine Line

The Kiffness