Purity Ring return with “stardew,” the first single from their new album WOMB

Megan James and Corin Roddick are ready to offer their first album in five years.

February 18, 2020
Purity Ring return with “stardew,” the first single from their new album <i>WOMB</i> Carson Davis Brown

Purity Ring are back. It's been five whole years since Megan James and Corin Roddick offered their last project (2015's another eternity). In the time since, they've collaborated with the likes of HEALTH, Soccer Mommy, and Katy Perry, but they've also been toiling away on their own material. Today, they're announcing that later this spring, they'll release WOMB, a new album informed by "a quest for comfort and the search for a resting place in a world where so much is beyond our control." The record, which was written, recorded, produced and mixed entirely by James and Roddick, is due out April 4 on 4AD.

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Ahead of that, they're sharing the album's beckoning lead single, "stardew." It's a crystalline rush of adrenaline that feels both faithful to the ethos that Purity Ring have cultivated across their first two albums, and exhilarating enough to stand apart as a mission of its own. Hear it below, and peep Purity Ring's newly announced tour itinerary in support of WOMB.

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Purity Ring U.S. and European tour:

May 3 - Phoenix, AZ @ Van Buren
May 4 - Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre
May 7 - Austin, TX @ ACL Live
May 8 - Dallas, TX @ Bomb Factory
May 9 - Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
May 11 - Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
May 12 - Washington, D.C. @ Anthem
May 13 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
May 15 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
May 16 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
May 18 - Boston, MA @ House of Blues
May 20 - Toronto, ON @ Phoenix
May 23 - Bakersfield, CA @ Lightning in a Bottle Fest
May 26 - Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theatre
May 27 - Lawrence, KS @ Liberty Theatre
May 28 - Denver, CO @ Mission
May 29 - Ogden, UT @ Ogden Twilight
May 30 - Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory
June 1 - Spokane, OR @ Knitting Factory
June 2 - Seattle, WA @ The Paramount
June 3 - Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
June 4 - Portland, OR @ Roseland Ballroom
June 5 - Eugene, OR @ McDonald Theatre
June 7 - Oakland, CA @ Fox Theatre
June 10 - San Diego, CA @ Observatory North Park
June 11 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Palladium
July 18 - Suffolk, UK @ Latitude Festival
September 4 - Stockholm, SE @ Nalen
September 5 - Oslo, NO @ Parkteatret
September 7 - Copenhagen, DK @ Pumpehuset
September 8 - Berlin, DE @ Columbia Theatre
September 9 - Amsterdam, NE @ Melkweg
September 11 - Brighton, UK @ Chalk
September 12 - Manchester, UK @ O2 Ritz
September 13 - Glasgow, UK @ SWG3
September 15 - Paris, FR @ Trabendo
September 16 - Brussels, BE @ Botanique
September 17 - Bristol, UK @ SWX
September 18 - London, UK @ Roundhouse

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Purity Ring return with “stardew,” the first single from their new album WOMB