![]() “I know that Salem is one, but I’ve never really listened to Salem. “Y’know when you see people heli skiing and their tracks are going like this, it’s like that.”Īs for the Witch House comparisons, Corin appears less au fait with it all than the swampy snare of ‘Grandloves’ and the black magic bossa nova keys of ‘Obedear’ suggest. “It’s like we’re heli skiing together,” she says. Megan notes that her vocals aren’t completely unaffected, with Corin “making it into an instrument and playing with it.” “I make Megan’s voice clear and present because I’m really confident in her voice.” But all those songs that are drenched in reverb, if you took that off and turned it up, you’d be like, ‘Oooomph’.” Corin grimaces. “Well, let’s not get bogged down in what is and what isn’t chillwave – genres are the most boring thing to talk about. “Is he chillwave? I think he has a nice voice.” Chillwave and Witch House, I mean, can you name one band that has a good singer?” “But had you not asked me you would have probably done that,” says Megan.Ĭorin: “Well, no, I wouldn’t have… It’s because it’s usually the person singing themselves, and these bands usually have bad singers. ![]() “People are afraid of letting the vocals be an up front thing,” says Corin. It helps that you can make out what Megan is singing, regardless of the double-dutch nature of her diary-written lullabies. Corin’s multi-storey, sparkling synths and clipped RnB beats aren’t all sweetness and light, but Megan’s fairy-like singsong hoists the duo’s debut album into bright sunlight. It’s Corin who will feature on this year’s NME Cool List – the group’s architect and electrical whiz kid with One Direction good looks.Īs for ‘Shrines’, it distinctly feels like the good witch to Witch House’s occult and doomy counterpart. Megan is a trained pianist, but she didn’t contribute any musical ideas to ‘Shrines’ or Purity Ring’s early demos of 2011. Maybe they do, but it is quite cryptic.”Ĭorin’s part of the deal is everything else. I think it’s easier for me because I feel like nobody understands it the way I do. I usually go through and find the things that I like best, and they’re usually the most meaningful and the most personal. I just wrote lullabies – I’d just walk down the street and sing a song and write it down.”Īnd if what you’d written down felt a little too personal, you simply leave it be, right? “But before Purity Ring started I was never writing for a musical project. “In a sense, I’m always writing songs,” Megan ponders. And lines like “Drill little holes into my eyelids/That I might see you/That I might see you when I sleep” haven’t been doctored for our amusement: “She just takes the line exactly as she’s written it down and puts it in the track,” notes Corin. She admits to never having had any ambitions to become a singer, but when Corin asked her to put vocals to his burgeoning electronic project, reaching for her journal felt strangely natural. To us her absurdist lyrics are just that, but they began as diary entries that weren’t necessarily meant for prying eyes. “A big one is… the body, and the separating of them, and coming together of them… but not sexually,” she hastens to add. “I write about a lot of the same topics,” she continues, nursing a raspberry lemonade. These are just things that I think about everyday, regardless of what I’m doing. I don’t think that what we’ve been doing together should influence what I write. ![]() “No, there isn’t much rest right now,” she laughs, “but I’m not thinking about Purity Ring when I’m writing lyrics. That’s been a big deal for me.” I mention that her current career choice isn’t too conducive to R&R. “I’ve been learning how important it is to take time out. “I think it’s more a reference to dreams… and rest in general,” she says. As Purity Ring’s saintly singer, it’s Megan who writes the lyrics she’ll angelically recite on stage in an hour or two, and ‘Shrines’, for all its abstract vocal hooks, rather fittingly seems to explore sleep above anything else. Megan – porcelain doll-like, less blemished than her 24-years, even, and button cute – looks particularly beat. Their European tour ends tonight, after visa cock-ups that meant a missed train from Paris to London, a late sound check and now this, another interview in an endless line formed by those who’ve heard debut album ‘Shrines’. ![]() In the basement of a Soho bistro, young Canadians Megan James and Corin Roddick look happy to have found a chair each. ![]()
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