Purity Ring bridges indie cool and mainstream pop    • Pin It
Purity Ring's Corin Roddick was a drummer in the Canadian indie-
rock band Gobble Gobble when he began flirting with electronic
music on his laptop while on tour a few years ago. He wasn't
immediately thrilled with the results.  "I thought it was
garbage," he says of his initial attempt at working on what
would become Purity Ring's breakthrough song, "Ungirthed." "I
made that track on my laptop on tour and didn't think it was any
good. So I closed it and didn't open it again till I got home
four months later. I was going back sifting through stuff I had
done when I heard that synth line again, and I had all these
ideas for it. It came together in a couple hours. I very seldom
write like that. It was a rare, magic moment where something
fell together quickly."  Roddick, who grew up in Edmonton,
Alberta, had gone through several musical phases before
discovering the independence and sonic freedom that electronic
music afforded him. As a young teen, h