(2019) Purple Pilgrims - Perfumed Earth
Review: To create their spellbinding sophomore record, Perfumed Earth, sisters Valentine and Clementine Nixon retreated to the woods of their native New Zealand. As Purple Pilgrims, the duo craft otherworldly electronic sounds cloaked in magic, mystery, and romance. There’s an earthiness to the group’s soft tendrils of guitar and soft fog of reverb. But while the record’s nine tracks evoke the dreamiest of dreampop, there’s darkness buried just beneath. For much of Perfumed Earth, Purple Pilgrims abandon not only modern society, but the 21st century altogether, delivering tragic tales of gothic romance with light, ethereal vocals, setting them against delicate arrangements. Think Kate Bush, if she collaborated with Beach House. On “Sensing Me,” they sing of a “high-heeled boy soul steeped in sorrow” who plans a furtive meeting at a cemetery. Death crops up throughout the record—so do sadness, isolation, anxiety, and regret. The sparkling “Two Worlds Apart” is built around the phrase, “I was born to live alone / The only life I’ve ever known.” Perfumed Earth closes with the lush, haunting “Tragic Gloss,” where the lines between life and death become blurred. Our heroine longs to meet her dearly departed lover where he rests “beneath a stone of grey.” “Never will I find release,” she laments; by the song’s end, she’s met her own harrowing fate. A grim fairy tale rooted firmly in the past, Perfumed Earth is an eerily tranquil reminder that some terrors are timeless. — bandcamp
Track List: 01 - How Long Is Too Long 02 - Ancestors Watching 03 - Sensing Me 04 - I'm Not Saying 05 - Delphiniums in Harmony; Two Worlds Away 06 - Two Worlds Apart 07 - Love in Lunacy (Saturn Return) 08 - Ruinous Splendour 09 - Tragic Gloss
Media Report: Genre: dream-pop Country: New Zealand Format: FLAC Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec Bit rate mode: Variable Channel(s): 2 channels Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz Bit depth: 16 bits Compression mode: Lossless Writing library: libFLAC 1.2.1 (UTC 2007-09-17)
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