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Pure X is the latest incarnation of a long-standing collaboration between Austin, Texas musicians and long-term friends Nate Gr ace, Jesse Jenkins and Austin Youngblood. Acéphale and Light Lodge are proud to present their latest EP, You’re In It Now, with a special fi¬rst pressing on black and white blended vinyl. Patient, sparse and never any less than heartbreaking, the clutch of songs making up Pure Ecstasy's material to date has a sonic originality that many artists spend entire careers trying to cultivate.
That's not to be mistaken — Pure X are a Rock 'n' Roll band in the tradition's truest sense. There are clear in uences here: the snarl and nonchalant bombast of the Jesus and Mary C hain, the wistful, lonesome croon of Hank Williams and the pure, lovesick melodies of 1960s soul music can all be easily perceived within the group's work to date.
Crucially, however, Pure X do not let their reverence for such precedents overwhelm them. So where other lo-¬ fetishists currently garnering attention tend to produce a facsimile of their inspirations, Grace, Jenkins and Youngblood dissect, invert and damage them. A preview to their June-released debut album, Pleasure, this EP includes newly mixed and mastered versions of early demos (“Don’t Wanna Li ve, Don’t Wanna Die” & “You’re In It Now”) but also includes new cuts “Back Where I Began” & “Untitled.”
The new mixes elevate the demos to their true potential — there’s a newfound meditative warmth that deepens the production and intensi¬es Grace’s frustrated, evocative emoting. Bound to its influences only by its golden melody and bruised sentiment, the music of Pure X is a genuine, unafraid and honest foray in to the emotive and redemptive potential of pop music, an endeavor that captures perfectly its inde¬nable ability to captivate and devastate in equal measure..
First Pressing Black/White Mixed Vinyl Ltd to 500 only.