Electro-pop duo, Purity Ring, have returned after a few years’ break, with a new two-part single. Comprising of “many lives” and “part ii,” it also comes with an animated video, created by Mike Sunday and Steve Teeps. Watch it in the article below.

“many lives” opens to an array of choral layers—reminiscent of Kenji Kawai’s Ghost in the Shell soundtrack—woven into holographic digital keyboards, high-tempo breakbeats, and a flowing current of vocals threaded with haunted vocoders, evoking the sense of an epic journey through a distant memory. The lyrics “house of a dream, walk into me / leave me behind, within between below” captures the bittersweet feeling of being left behind while evoking a dreamlike state of contentment. “part ii” offers a moment of stillness centered on classical guitar, signaling a peaceful reconciliation of what’s to come.