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Jun 13, 2014While Pleasure and C.U.T.S. evoke the nature of the dream, Angel, obsessive and occasionally trite, tends to tell rather than show.
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May 21, 2014Angel tells a story but it's nothing you haven't heard before.
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Q MagazineMay 20, 2014Almost defiantly ramshackle the mix of classy songcraft and threadbare instrumentation nonetheless makes for a compelling listen. [Jun 2014, p.118]
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May 19, 2014Overall, Pure X’s immersive charm remains intact. Only ‘Rain’ betrays the heady sonics of old.
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May 1, 2014It's an unintentional throwback to Texas' slo-core scene of the Nineties that--despite its eyesore EDM cover art--strikes a compelling balance between glacial pacing and immediate songcraft.
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May 1, 2014All things considered, Angel probably lacks the invention and imagination that it’d really require in order to be counted amongst the genuine candidates for the business end of the year’s ‘best-of’ lists; the sheer stylistic versatility that they’ve demonstrated, though, in swapping the claustrophobia of Crawling Up the Stairs for Angel’s wide-open spaces, should be enough to ensure that they’ll be there or there abouts.
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Apr 30, 2014Pure X have emerged from a dark abyss into beatific splendour.
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Apr 10, 2014It’s a well-crafted, well-performed piece of mediocrity, and that might be the most stinging disappointment of all.
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Apr 3, 2014The rich, roomy tonal fidelity on display is a big part of what makes Angel click.
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Apr 3, 2014Angel feels like a continuous, slow-motion sunset on a coastline in a dream. It's new territory for Pure X, but when the elements of '70s radio rock and Sunday-morning soul come together, it results in some of their most tuneful moments.
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Apr 3, 2014Angel serves as a balm in another era defined by mass pessimism and doubt.
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Apr 3, 2014It’s a heartfelt, narcotic odyssey through the seductive pleasures of lava lamps and black light posters, a kind of escapism that comes in the same strange, silk-screened colors as the novelty lighters and t-shirts one might find at a backwoods southwestern gas station.