Pure X – Angel (2014)

Pure X have resurfaced and signed with Fat Possum for their upcoming third album, Angel. Due April 1, the new LP follows last year’s fascinating but troubled Crawling Up the Stairs, a record primary songwriters Nate Grace and Jesse Jenkins described as “the arc of a personal descent into hell and the slow climb back out of it.”
As its title suggests, Angel will be a gentler affair, one that favors the latter part of the “psych-pop” tag. The album was recorded mostly live and set to tape over a period of five days in a century-old dance hall in rural central Texas.With the third album, and their first as a quartet, their previous creations have given way to a new found serenity, a calm which finds the band in its most potent, refined, and elemental form yet.