There’s been seemingly endless talk of late about genre dissolvement in music. The electronic duo Purity Ring helped to kickstart that conversation, when in 2011 they offered up a torrent of new-new pop singles (“future pop,” they called it), singing of bones and warped bodies and ruinous wonder over chilly and deeply satisfying synthetics. The subsequent album, Shrines, felt so fresh and, somehow, so fitting for our increasingly touch-screened world: The music was numb and visceral at once.
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