{"title":"Pure Bathing Culture","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"pray-for-rain","title":"Pray For Rain LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen it came time to write and record their follow-up to Moon Tides, Sarah Vesprille and Dan Hindman knew what they didn’t want. “We didn’t gravitate towards someone making indie dream-pop records,” Dan said. That was when producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Swans, Angel Olsen, The Walkmen) reached out to the band and invited them to come record with him in his Dallas, TX studio. “John pushed us to not make clichés, to not play into the style of other bands,” Dan said.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEverything on Pray for Rain is pretty much as Pure Bathing Culture actually sounds, all analog gear, with virtually no plug-ins or effects added afterwards, no hiding behind multiple layers. “There aren’t a lot of tricks; What you hear is naturally what’s there,” Dan said.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSarah summarizes the Pray for Rain experience as one of “stepping into the realm of discovering who we are as a band and as songwriters,” echoing a theme of the album itself, the process of change and transition. “You can find the best version of yourself in those hardest moments,” she said. To which Dan adds: “You have to be backed up against the wall in order to really feel those feelings and respond to them.” Pray for Rain is the sound of Pure Bathing Culture transforming from who they were to who they will be, of finding their way, ready to take steps both small and momentous on their musical path.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTRACKLIST\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Tower\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePray For Rain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePalest Pearl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDarling, Save Us\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSinger\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShe Shakes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaximilian’s Ring\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Trace Your Symbol\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn The Night, In The Peaceful Night\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pure Bathing Culture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52428208570696,"sku":"100P-12524","price":16.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/0402\/5416\/files\/prayforrain.png?v=1770911259"},{"product_id":"pray-for-rain-cd","title":"Pray For Rain CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen it came time to write and record their follow-up to Moon Tides, Sarah Vesprille and Dan Hindman knew what they didn’t want. “We didn’t gravitate towards someone making indie dream-pop records,” Dan said. 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To which Dan adds: “You have to be backed up against the wall in order to really feel those feelings and respond to them.” Pray for Rain is the sound of Pure Bathing Culture transforming from who they were to who they will be, of finding their way, ready to take steps both small and momentous on their musical path.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pure Bathing Culture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52534194372936,"sku":"100P-13022","price":11.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/0402\/5416\/files\/prayforrain_c2f92f2d-d34c-403a-8e73-0ae7153cefc0.png?v=1771866079"},{"product_id":"moon-tides","title":"Moon Tides — Digital Download","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt's a rare and beautiful thing when a band emerges fully formed, but it makes perfect sense in the case of guitarist Daniel Hindman and keyboardist Sarah Versprille’s Pure Bathing Culture. Having backed folk rock revisionist Andy Cabic in Vetiver, the New Yorkers partnered up and moved West in 2011, settling in Portland, Oregon. Building off their past experiences as musical collaborators, in a short time the duo have created a sound that is undeniably their own: soaring synths, chiming keyboards, and shimmering electric guitars move in lockstep with bouncing drum machines. Sarah’s crystalline voice floats on top of it all with divine purpose. It’s a sound that looks back momentarily for inspiration -- Talk Talk, Prefab Sprout, Cocteau Twins -- but then fixes its gaze firmly on the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album title Moon Tides alludes to self-discovery: “We are deeply inspired by the relationship between the moon and the tides. 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Other standout tracks from the album — “Dream The Dare”, “Twins”, “Scotty” and “Golden Girl” — are slices of reverb-drenched, soulful, danceable electro-pop, that musically and lyrically tap into an introspective worship of the natural and psychic mysteries that surround us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Versprille's lyrics somehow combine palatial Europe and cornpone Americana by getting deep into Ren Faire symbolism-- \"You're the cat's eye\/ You're the pendulum\/ When the orator says it's your time\/ You're the one.\" Those are the lines that her piercing vocals allow you to hear, but by the time it gets to the chorus, her words lapse into an amorphous, swooning gesture while the whole thing gets liquefied by wet reverb. 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