Purity Ring's run of pre-debut-LP singles —"Ungirthed," "Belispeak," "Obedear— each so brilliant that the duo's every carefully-released track began to take on a mythical weight. And so it goes with "Fineshrine," the fine final single to be released before Shrines, Purity Ring's monstrous debut LP, is turned out on the world.Given it sneaks the LP's title within its own, it's no surprise "Fineshrine" holds a totemic quality within the record. Here, Megan James' album-long lyrical study of the bodily —of blood and bile and bones and skin— is never more vivid, never more overt.
"Get a little closer," James carols, with a sense of invitation; though just where she's beckoning you is both beautiful and beastly. "Cut open my sternum and pull/my little ribs around you," she sings, this solicitation an invitation for listeners to come nestle deep within her guts; within, effectively, the visceral world her words renders.
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