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PURE BATHING CULTURE – ” The Downtown Lights ” (Feat. Ben Gibbard & San Fermin) The Blue Nile Cover

Posted: December 6, 2020 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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hi friends! we’re excited to announce that our version of The Blue Nile’s “Hats” is being rereleased and will now be available to stream everywhere for the first time! it will be out in full 12/18 via Better Company. it’s been remixed and remastered and features additional arrangements by the wonderful San Fermin today you can hear The Downtown Lights featuring backing vocals from the great Benjamin Gibbard.

The Portland based indie pop outfit Pure Bathing Culture have covered the Blue Nile’s 1989 album Hats in its entirety. In a statement, Pure Bathing Culture’s Sarah Versprille said, “We became immediately obsessed with their world of nostalgia and longing and the way the songs were simultaneously extremely sad at times but also intensely romantic and modern. It made us feel like the music we wanted to make was validated in some way by the fact that their music had already existed in the universe.” Listen to their take on “Saturday Night,” featuring Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard.

The album is part of Turntable Kitchen’s Sounds Delicious series, which finds artists covering their favourite albums in their entirety. (Previous entries included Ben Gibbard’s take on Teenage Fanclub’s Bandwagonesque, Jonathan Rado doing Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run, and Mutual Benefit playing Vashti Bunyan’s Just Another Diamond Day). Pure Bathing Culture’s Hats is limited to 1,000 copies and is available exclusively through Turntable Kitchen.

PURE BATHING CULTURE – ” She Shakes “

Posted: May 2, 2016 in MUSIC
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Sarah Versprille and Daniel Hindman, are the pair behind Portland, Oregon.-based Pure Bathing Culture, the pair have been on a decades-long journey filled with transformations and discoveries.

Pure Bathing Culture’s history spans nearly two decades, beginning in 1999 with Versprille and Hindman befriending one another on the first day of freshman activities at William Patterson University.

A decade later, they became bandmates when they both joined folk band Vetiver for their albums Tight Knit and The Errant Charm. Pure Bathing Culture revealed itself and became its own entity as time progressed. “That’s really the path we’ve been on as a band, always putting one foot in front of the other as opportunities presented themselves,

Today, Pure Bathing Culture are releasing the gauzy music video for “She Shakes,” the latest single off their 2015 album Pray for Rain, “We haven’t been in one of our videos since the very first video we made for our song Ivory Coast about four years ago, and we were excited about the idea of being in another video,” the band says. Filmed at Greer Ranch in Calabasas, Calif., the music video focuses on the key elements of Pure Bathing Culture: Versprille  and, Hindman, and their instruments. “We wanted it to take place somewhere beautiful and we wanted the expression to honor one of the most important aspects of our music, which is our connection to each other.”

PURE BATHING CULTURE – ” Pray For Rain “

Posted: November 6, 2015 in MUSIC
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Pure Bathing Culture – Pray For Rain
Portland duo Pure Bathing Culture follow 2012’s self-titled debut with this, a record richer than its predecessor in every sense. There’s not much going on, but the band’s knack for warm melody means you can get lost in every track. ‘The Tower’ and ‘Clover’ charm most, timeless pop songs that move slowly, as if they’ve been out in the sun for too long.

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Last month, Pure Bathing Culture put out their glistening sophomore effort Pray For Rain, and today the title track has gotten a remix courtesy of Sylvan Esso. Somehow, the two feel like compatriots, even though they’re not very sonically similar — I guess it’s because they’re both duos, wrangling with sounds that are just a little bit past their peaks. Sylvan Esso’s Nick Sanborn — who just put out a solo EP recently as Made Of Oak — proudly evades the characteristically boring remix route and creates something that can actually stand on its own away from the original track, using its basic structure as more of a guideline than a rule.

“Sometimes when you get asked to remix a song you already love, it can be tough to find a good angle without completely changing the vibe,” Sanborn  “So it was really cool of Pure Bathing Culture to give Amelia and I so much leeway on this stylistically. If there are any house DJs out there who ever get down to 105bpm, this one’s for them.”

PURE BATHING CULTURE – ” Palest Pearl “

Posted: September 11, 2015 in MUSIC
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pure bathing culture are gearing up for the release of their sophomore album “Pray For Rain”, out october 23rd via partisan records. the portland duo shared the album’s confident title track towards the end of this past july, and earlier this week they offered up its second single. “Palest Pearl” finds Pure Bathing Culture diving headlong into the 1980s, fixing a buoyant melody atop a cautionary lyrical tale derived from a seminal h.d. poem. the track is as gargantuan as its predecessor, at least in comparison to the more subdued approach the duo took on their debut moon tides; at this rate, pray for rain could easily be this fall’s most-underrated pop album.

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PURE BATHING CULTURE – ” Audiotree Session “

Posted: October 28, 2014 in MUSIC
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American Indie Rock band from Brooklyn New York City , Sarah Versprille and Daniel Hindman met while college students in New Jersey after moving to Portland, Oregon after playing in the band Vetiver, with an EP released for Father Daughter Records produced by Richard Swift, and then an album “Moon Tides” released the following year.

PURE BATHING CULTURE – ” Twins “

Posted: September 6, 2014 in MUSIC
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The fourth track from the new album by Pure Bathing Culture ” Moon Tides ” the band are Daniel Hindman and Sarah Versprille based in Portland