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Album Review: Pure Bathing - Culture Moon Tides

12 September 2013 | 1:45 pm | Brendan Telford

Eschewing generation shifts and elegiac hazes, Moon Tides ebbs and flows, a quietly resonant listen.

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3.5 stars

Listening to Moon Tides, the debut release from Portland-based duo Pure Bathing Culture, it's impossible to remain immune to their soothing, shimmering soundscapes. Having flexed their muscle serving as the backing band for Vetiver, they prove adept at a languorous lilt, sliding from hedonistic folk pop with pagan leanings (Pendulum, Temples Of The Moon) to '80s bedroom whispers (Twins) with a rigid aesthetic of Daniel Hindman's crystalline guitar and Sarah Versprille's  floating vocals. Eschewing generation shifts and elegiac hazes, Moon Tides ebbs and flows, a quietly resonant listen.