Banished Music presents
CLEMENTINE VALENTINE
(Formerly Purple Pilgrims)
The Coin that Broke the Fountain Floor album release tour
Thursday, September 7 - Meow, Wellington w/ WOMB
Friday, September 8 - the Crown, Dunedin w/ Children's letters to god
Saturday, September 9 - Space Academy, Christchurch w/ Moider Mother
Saturday, September 16 - Whammy, Auckland w/ I.e crazy
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Clementine Valentine, the Coromandel based art-pop duo formerly known as Purple Pilgrims, announce four intimate shows this September to celebrate the release of their new album, The Coin that Broke the Fountain Floor releasing August 25th via Flying Nun Records.
Sisters Clementine and Valentine Nixon draw inspiration from their nomadic family heritage, creating music that evokes contrasting moods: ancient and modern, paradise and isolation, beauty and brokenness, ritual and the present moment.
The Coin that Broke the Fountain Floor is a pivotal album in the creative evolution of sisters Clementine and Valentine. It finds them leaning further than ever before into collaboration, folklore, poetry, and power. Their intertwined vocals reach for loftier, more operatic heights of pop and myth, heartbreak and desire, suffused with the spirit of storytelling heroines long lost to time. The album title alludes to the tipping point extremes of recent years, coloured by dreams crushing, wishes gathering, and an abundance of hope.
The duo recently opened for Weyes Blood in a spellbinding performance at the Powerstation.
“From the moment they arrived, the duo immediately held the audience closely, the sisters’ voices in faultless harmony with one another. Their duality is so utterly intoxicating that it is almost impossible to look away, like sirens of the sea, the Nixon’s capture everyone’s souls with their music.” - Ambient Light
