Pure X Share 'Slip Away' Video and 'Alexandria' Track From Rare Ecstasy
Today, ahead of the release of Rare Ecstasy 2009-2019 on October 16th Pure X have shared a new cut from their rarities and b-sides album. The new single is the smoked-out, driving and hazy track, “Alexandria”. Alongside the single the band has released a stunning black and white music video accompanying “Slip Away”, which initially came out on their self-titled album earlier this year. Rare Ecstasy was announced on the heels of the band’s critically celebrated first album in 6 years that saw universal acclaim from outlets like Pitchfork, Stereogum, Paste, Brooklyn Vegan, Aquarium Drunkard, All Music, Line of Best Fit, Exclaim, Under The Radar, NME and Spin. The LP was announced alongside a mesmeric cover of Willie Nelson's "One Day At A Time," the release is a collection of recordings and rarities that span the more than a decade career of the Austin underground legends. Comprising tracks that reflect what Pitchfork once called the “druggy, wall-of-sound escapism that put them on the map,” these 12 tracks embody the Pure X sound, breaking it down and offering up a raw emotive portrait that cycle the band’s expansive output. A must have addition to the collection of any Pure X fan.
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Rare Ecstasy 2009-2019 is a collection of unreleased b-sides, demos, and covers that span the more than a decade career of the Texas underground legends. Rare Ecstasy includes early tracks that reflect what Pitchfork once called the “druggy, wall-of-sound escapism that put them on the map,” as well as unreleased recordings from each album session that document the evolution of the Pure X sound. A must- have addition to the collection of any Pure X fan.
The packaging includes a mixed matte & spot gloss gatefold jacket with silver foil stamping and your choice of transparent sea glass or black vinyl.
1st Pressing
Transparent Sea Glass - 400 Units
Black - 300 Units
Clear (Indie Retail Exclusive) - 300 Units
Get Rare Ecstasy bundled with Pure X’s Self Titled, Pleasure & Crawling Up The Stairs for one low price.
Rare Ecstasy 2009-2019 is a collection of unreleased b-sides, demos, and covers that span the more than a decade career of the Texas underground legends. Rare Ecstasy includes early tracks that reflect what Pitchfork once called the “druggy, wall-of-sound escapism that put them on the map,” as well as unreleased recordings from each album session that document the evolution of the Pure X sound. A must- have addition to the collection of any Pure X fan.
The packaging includes a mixed matte & spot gloss gatefold jacket with silver foil stamping and your choice of transparent sea glass or black vinyl.
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.
1st Pressing:
300 Copies: Clear & Blue Splatter
400 Copies: Black
300 Copies: Indie Exclusive Sky Blue (Available at your favorite Indie Record Store)
Pleasure is the debut album from Austin underground luminaries Pure X, re-issued on 180 gram vinyl by Fire Talk. Building from promising 7” releases, ‘Pleasure’ continues the band’s affinity for burnt out soundscapes and intricate, understated guitar work that together weaves a moody tapestry of everlasting sunset. Spotlighted by major press, Pitchfork in particular commended the album as a “terrific-sounding record, built for headphones and high volume.” A revelatory introduction to the band, ‘Pleasure’ pinpoints a signature sound that Pure X would continue to hone over the course of a longstanding career - a pristinely devastating soundtrack that feels pertinent to the end times of the current state of the world.
Pressed on 180 Gram Black Vinyl.
Crawling Up The Stairs is the sophomore album from Austin underground luminaries Pure X, re-issued on 180 gram vinyl by Fire Talk. The anticipated follow-up to debut ‘Pleasure,’ the new record places Nate Grace’s ragged vocals upfront in the mix with more clearcut, refined production choices, while still imbued with the jagged sexual tension and undercurrent of catastrophe that has won them fans across the world. More accolades from the press followed, notably Pitchfork calling the record “sophisticated and self aware,” lending a further upward trajectory to the band’s steadfast cult status. The duality of vocals from Grace and Jenkins for the first time evoke an even more enthralling immediacy to Pure X's continued evolution of their nightmarish visions, a spellbinding combination that will find appeal in old fans and new listeners alike.
Pressed on 180 Gram Vinyl