{"id":355654,"date":"2025-11-04T19:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T19:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/355654\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T19:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T19:07:09","slug":"purity-rings-dallas-show-will-contain-a-world-of-emotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/355654\/","title":{"rendered":"Purity Ring\u2019s Dallas Show Will Contain a World of Emotion"},"content":{"rendered":"

On a Monday in late September, the two members of the electropop band Purity Ring pulled themselves away from their North American tour<\/a> prep to talk about how to build a world. Their new, self-titled album is a soundtrack to an imaginary role-playing game (RPG for short), so world-building has been top of mind for quite some time. When you\u2019re in the middle of an album like that \u2014 or any album, for that matter \u2014 it\u2019s easy to hyper-fixate on a certain sound or a specific lyric, they say.<\/p>\n

But Corin Roddick and Megan James, the producer and singer behind the music, don\u2019t want to lose sight of the bigger picture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis record is a world in and of itself, but it\u2019s also about a world that I think is possible to build within this one,\u201d James says. \u201cThere\u2019s a collective grief I feel like everyone has encountered, but also hope for what people are capable of doing together.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Roddick, who creates the band\u2019s ethereal loops and sounds, saw his job on this record as navigating an \u201cin-between space\u201d between joy and sorrow.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s that space where you\u2019re not sure if you should feel uplifted or forlorn,\u201d he says. \u201cYou feel in this sort of in-between state. But I think hope and grief are within that.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a tone that fans of Purity Ring \u2014 and RPGs \u2014 will recognize instantly. Since their 2012 debut, Shrines, the Canadian duo has been known for their ability to wrap dark, often difficult emotions in bright synths and sparkling percussion. This time, though, they\u2019ve leaned harder into emotional nuance and the immersive power of the live show. (As if the latter wasn\u2019t already maxed out.)<\/p>\n

The band has always been known for its intricately designed, light-intensive shows, and its Nov. 7 show at the Granada Theater will likely be no different.<\/p>\n

In fact, Roddick and James insist to the Observer that their Dallas concert will be different from anything even their most ardent fans will recognize.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re building a completely new setup and visual presentation pretty much every tour,\u201d Roddick says. \u201cWe kind of start from scratch\u2026 and end up doing most of the detail stuff ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Good luck getting them to talk about those details, though. Rather than divulge any specifics, Roddick and James focus, again, on that bigger picture.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe stage design that we\u2019ve been working on is, to my knowledge, something that has never been seen before on stage,\u201d Roddick says. \u201cIt\u2019ll be a combination of confusion and excitement and a bit of, \u2018How does that work?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

What they do share is that the show contains plenty of pulsing lights and LED experimentation. Early\u00a0reviews<\/a>\u00a0of some of their new shows thus far mention spinning projections and a series of light strips that sketch the band\u2019s movement in vibrant colors. In other words, it sounds like the latest evolution of a band that\u2019s always been interested in using light and color to tell their story.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes when we\u2019re writing a song, there is a visual element to it,\u201d James says. \u201cMaybe I\u2019ll get an idea for the way a light is represented in a song or what kind of environment it\u2019s situated in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, they\u2019re careful not to let that influence limit them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never want to not do something because it\u2019s going to be hard [to play] live,\u201d Roddick says. \u201cIf it\u2019s going to be hard live, we\u2019ll either just not do it live or figure out a different way to do it, like a new interpretation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The band\u2019s new album is a product of that freedom, as well as years of collaboration and mutual trust. They\u2019ve worked together for more than 15 years, and that long-standing creative bond has shaped everything from their recording process to their sense of what the band means.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis record just felt like both of us were comfortable with ourselves and with each other and able to make what we wanted,\u201d James says. \u201cRegardless of nostalgia.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nostalgia is something the band has been hearing a lot lately. In Paste\u2019s review<\/a> of the new album, the writer notes that \u201ctheir signature sound, anchored in early 2010s aesthetics, still feels like a comforting echo of another time.\u201d But for Purity Ring, nostalgia isn\u2019t the engine behind their creative process.<\/p>\n

\u201cNostalgia is always a part of making music, because you\u2019re pulling from the musicality of yourself, and in a sense, that could be nostalgia,\u201d James says. \u201cBut yeah, I wouldn\u2019t say that was part of our writing process. I think that\u2019s more how we\u2019re perceived.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roddick agrees, though he sees value in the feeling nostalgia can evoke. Especially in the context of music.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m always nostalgic for the way music made me feel,\u201d he says. \u201cLike putting on a CD for the first time when I was 15, and then it just hitting you like a wall, and you\u2019re like, \u2018Oh my god, I thought I knew music, but I feel changed after listening to that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

That feeling \u2014 music as transformation, as a passage into another emotional realm \u2014 is at the heart of the band\u2019s latest album and tour. And while grief certainly shadows some of the tracks, the band wants you to ultimately feel a sense of hope.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard, they know. But it\u2019s also essential. Like an epic, emotional RPG soundtrack that ends on a hopeful note, Purity Ring wants to leave you feeling like there\u2019s light at the end of the tunnel.<\/p>\n

\u201cI personally have a lot of hope for what people are capable of doing together and becoming together,\u201d James says. \u201cI haven\u2019t lost that. I don\u2019t want to lose that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Purity Ring with yuniVERSE will perform on Friday, Nov. 7, at 8 p.m. at Granada Theater, 3524 Greenville Ave. Tickets are available starting at $54.08 on Prekindle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On a Monday in late September, the two members of the electropop band Purity Ring pulled themselves away…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":355655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,132130,1596,21201,12079,4006,358,132131,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-355654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-concert-previews","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-edm","12":"tag-nightlife","13":"tag-pop-music","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-touring-artists","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115493001302264891","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}