Purple Pilgrims have announced the release of their third album, Given to the Night, out on the 27th November via Flying Nun Records.

In creating Given to the Night, sisters Valentine and Clementine Nixon have crafted a world that drifts through the in-between: between dream and reality, between day and night and the undefined, and ultimately a world that embraces the discomfort of being untethered.

While making the new record, Valentine and Clementine gently pushed away from the world- deleted social media, retreated into the trees of their native Aotearoa - and only invited a couple of people in during the recording process. From that space, the album came together in an eerily easeful way.

Written during a time of personal transition there was “a sense of finding the light in the shadow” they add. Guitar lines float, synth lines entwine, tapes hiss and vocals stream creating a kaleidoscopic montage of transient memories and emotions. A spectrum of feelings arise - isolation and joy, insomnia and manic highs, confusion and fleeting clarity, grief and healings. In the record, these feelings all merge and fade into one another in a nonlinear manner, as life tends to do; creating something deeply human that simultaneously gestures towards the transcendental.