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Lofticries by Purity Ring

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Purity Ring

Lofticries

Release date: 22nd April 2012

From Shrines
Track 10
4:00
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About This Track

'Lofticries' arrives as a study in bodily surrender and collective dissolution. Purity Ring constructs the track around repetition and accumulation: bead-weighted chests, trembling thighs, weepy skin cycling through the refrain with hypnotic precision. The lyrics move between states of weather and flesh, thunder and rain bleeding into veins, the physical and meteorological collapsing into one another. There is something almost liturgical in the repetition, a chant built from grief and moisture. The second half pivots inward, addressing a brother figure tasked with collecting liquids from the floor, fashioning them into paste, letting the mixture seep through sockets and ear holes. It is an image of care and contamination at once, healing and intrusion folded together. The song holds both tenderness and violation in suspension, never quite resolving which is which. Throughout, Purity Ring's production sits beneath the lyrics like held breath, letting the words carry their own strange weight.

"Lofticries" is a track by Purity Ring, from the album Shrines, released 22nd April 2012. The track is 4:00 long. It's filed under Electronic. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Purity Ring.

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Lyrics

Lofticries

Bring, bring the thunder
And the loud, loud rain
Lead our woes asunder
'Neath the proud, proud veins
Of traits that bleed the gunmen
Of our pumping, earthly hearts
Ween our joys in plunder
Feel our shining teeth
Bet our hold on happiness
Bead-weighted chests with lofticries
Lofticries with trembling thighs
Weepy chests with weepy sighs
Weepy skin with trembling thighs
You must be hovering over yourself
Watching us drip on each other's sides
Dear brother, collect all the liquids off of the floor
Use your oily fingers
Make a paste, let it form
Let it seep through your sockets and ear holes
Into your precious, fractured skull
Let it seep, let it keep you from us
Patiently heal you
Patiently unreel you
Bead-weighted chests with lofticries
Lofticries with trembling thighs
Weepy chests with weepy sighs
Weepy skin with trembling thighs
You must be hovering over yourself
Watching us drip on each other's sides
Dear brother, collect all the liquids off of the floor
Use your oily fingers
Pick up paste, let it form
(Bead-weighted chests with lofticries
Lofticries with trembling thighs
Weepy chests with weepy sighs
Weepy skin with trembling thighs
You must be hovering over yourself
Watching us drip on each other's sides

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Track details

From Shrines

4:002012
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Album
Shrines
Shrines
Purity Ring
23rd April 2012
Track number
10
Release year
2012
  1. 1Crawlersout
    3:10
  2. 2Fineshrine
    3:30
  3. 3Ungirthed
    2:49
  4. 4Amenamy
    3:27

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