Pure Bathing Culture w/ Death Cab for Cutie + New Video "She Shakes"

PURE BATHING CULTURE ANNOUNCE TOUR DATES

SUPPORTING DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE

SHARE NEW VIDEO FOR "SHE SHAKES"

PRAY FOR RAIN ONE OF GORILLA VS BEAR'S BEST ALBUMS OF 2015

 OUT NOW ON PARTISAN RECORDS US

MEMPHIS INDUSTRIES EU

WATCH: "She Shakes" on YouTube

LISTEN: "Pray For Rain" on Soundcloud

  

 

On the heels of their headlining tour supporting new release Pray For Rain (Partisan, 10/23), Pure Bathing Culture just announced two year-end shows with Death Cab For Cutie. The two bands will team up on December 16th and 17th to play Portland's KNRK December to Remember shows. Pure Bathing Culture will play KEXP's Yule Benefit concert as well on December 12th with Wolf Alice.

Today the band also debuts new video for album track "She Shakes," a striking portrait of the duo side by side that showcases the stark contrast between Sarah Versprille's "transcendental" (Stereogum) vocals and Daniel Hindman's classically trained guitar skills. Click below to watch. 

 

Pray For Rain is their second studio album and the first produced by John Congleton (St. Vincent, Angel Olsen). Since being released at the end of October, it has garnered fans at Vulture, Noisey, Interview Magazine and more. The FADER calls their music "a serving of 1980s synth-pop that is equal parts danceable and devastating." 

PRAISE FOR PURE BATHING CULTURE'S PRAY FOR RAIN

"Synth pop fun...lovely" --New York Mag (Vulture)

"chiming guitar chords that sway between speakers...a pinch of 80s radio power pop...jetpacked into the future by fuzzed up bass" --VICE Noisey

"['Pray For Rain'] adds new oomph to the duo's crystalline transcendental yacht-pop..."
--Stereogum 

"[Versprille's] voice layers with clean synths, guitars, and bass for a song that has an overarching uplifting tone, despite its relatively somber lyricism."

--Interview Magazine

  "Pray for Rain sounds very polished, with Vesprille's poetic lyrics melding with dreamy pop melodies." --Bitch Magazine   

"[Showcases] Versprille and Hindman's ability to inject heat-seeking pop missiles in their melodies, aiming them straight for listeners' hearts and making them impossible to dodge." --Portland Mercury

"a poppier, more expansive sound with stylish grace and keep just enough of the mystery intact to stay interesting." --AllMusic

"...hopelessly earwormy, so be prepared to love it instantly and carry it with you for days."
--ElevenPDX

"highly addictive dream-pop" --BrooklynVegan

   

Tour Dates

12/12/15 - Seattle, WA @ Neumos - KEXP Yule Benefit Concert w/ Wolf Alice

12/16/15 - Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom - December to Remember event w/Death Cab for Cutie

12/17/15 - Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom - December to Remember event w/Death Cab for Cutie