Name: Pure X
Brand: Pure X

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CDFTK164

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-07-03

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Supplier GB

Proper

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Standard:20

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Artist

Pure X

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Firetalk

Indie band Pure X hails from Austin, Texas. Formed in 2009 by Nate Grace and Jesse Jenkins, the band took a hiatus in 2014 but reunited in 2017 to embark on a new album. With their unique sound and captivating lyrics, Pure X has gained a dedicated following within the indie music scene.
Known for their introspective and dreamy melodies, Pure X's music takes listeners on an emotional journey. Their distinct blend of shoegaze and lo-fi elements creates a mesmerizing atmosphere that sets them apart from other artists.
Since their reunion, Pure X has been hard at work crafting their latest album, showcasing their growth as musicians while staying true to their signature sound. Fans eagerly anticipate the release of this highly anticipated project.

Pure X is the last band, has always been the last band. Not that there won’t be future acts, more that Pure X understands that all this pageantry, this civilization is wrapping up. It burned hot and bright like thermite used to bust a safe open, but now is the age of radiating waves, each one buckles the foundation more than the last.

It would be understandable to express such forbidden fatalism in a brittle, harsh nihilism, the stark echo of a stone rattling down an endless well. But on this album, their fourth and first in six years, there is a pre-dawn kindness. It may be funereal, but it is a Viking pyre ablaze in the middle of a river, one of those moments when the water seems to pause and reflect the clouds blooming like smoke from an invisible glass pipe.

Recorded live in the bucolic Texas Hill Country, this is their clearest, most focused work. The rhythm section is locked in--a night train through the desert. There is more singing, the weary wisdom of the lyrics ringing like Tibetan bowls. In 38 minutes, Pure X weave a culmination, all the delays and distortion, the grinding mortar of touring, the low-tide pulling them out from a cult band, to a legacy band, it’s here, understood and forgiven. 

This album is a guide, it will comfort you through this long bruised twilight. It’s time to leave the fantasy, to play the game.

Music GB