Electronic dance music with powerful beats, heavy bass lines, distorted vocals and melodic elements. The Pure Devotion World Tour brings that sound to the stage in a new live show built around the eponymous second album.
The British brothers Tom and Ed Russell have developed a recognisable sound of their own, in which the energy of the dance floor combines with a more emotional side. Their debut album Good Lies marked their international breakthrough, followed by shows at, among others, Glastonbury and Primavera Sound, a sold-out Alexandra Palace and a self-curated night during The Warehouse Project.
With Pure Devotion they continue to build on that sound. The album came about during secluded writing sessions in Iceland and Spain, where analogue synthesizers from the 1970s and 1980s were combined with modern production techniques. For example, they re-recorded drum machines through large amplifiers and a public address speaker from a train station that was used somewhere between 1925 and 1935.