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Puressence
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indie, britpop, alternative, orchestral pop, indie rock… see all
Manchester, United Kingdom (1992 – present)
The melodic Mancunians first emerged in 1992, having played a series of gigs at Manchester’s In The City festival.
The band have released four albums so far, ‘Puressence’ in April 1996, ‘Only Forever’ in August 1998, ‘Planet Helpless’ in 2002 and Don’t Forget to remember in 2007. ‘Planet Helpless’ was hailed as the band’s greatest, with lead singer James stating that it was, “like 15-20 years of all the different facets of Manchester music, the acid house scene, the Roses, the Mondays, even Joy Division all rolled into the present day 2002.”
With such a melting pot of excellent influences, it was little wonder that the band decided to part company with their last label after being advised in a bizarre record company meeting, “We need you to sound more like Savage Garden”.
Now, free from the shackles of that bound them in the form of major record company, the band are ready to release their most inspired offering yet.
Massive in Greece – their last album reached number 4 in the Greek charts – America has recently acknowledged the band’s excellence with the group’s first US offering (a collection of songs from the band’s first three albums) scheduled for an Autumn release with a tour of North America set to coincide.
The band have released four albums so far, ‘Puressence’ in April 1996, ‘Only Forever’ in August 1998, ‘Planet Helpless’ in 2002 and Don’t Forget to remember in 2007. ‘Planet Helpless’ was hailed as the band’s greatest, with lead singer James stating that it was, “like 15-20 years of all the different facets of Manchester music, the acid house scene, the Roses, the Mondays, even Joy Division all rolled into the present day 2002.”
With such a melting pot of excellent influences, it was little wonder that the band decided to part company with their last label after being advised in a bizarre record company meeting, “We need you to sound more like Savage Garden”.
Now, free from the shackles of that bound them in the form of major record company, the band are ready to release their most inspired offering yet.
Massive in Greece – their last album reached number 4 in the Greek charts – America has recently acknowledged the band’s excellence with the group’s first US offering (a collection of songs from the band’s first three albums) scheduled for an Autumn release with a tour of North America set to coincide.
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PURESSENCE - Don't Know Any Better
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Puressence - Don't Forget To Remember
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Puressence - This Feeling
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Burns Inside
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Don't Know Any Better
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Palisades
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Moonbeam
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Don't Forget To Remember
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Life Comes Down Hard
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Bitter Pill
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Sold Unseen
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Shoutbox
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rorokeating wrote:
heavily underrated band luv them!
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potis1980 wrote:
if you like puressence, then check RAINING PLEASURE. You will love them :)
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coffee_au_lait wrote:
wonderful! sounds like delays :)
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karolcia_1993 wrote:
brilliant band, but sooo underrated
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Muse_addict_gr wrote:
Third Rock???What's this?It's not one of Puressence's songs..
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gruff_rhys wrote:
Come back soon!!!
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idlehollow-tank wrote:
would love all Puressence fans to have a look at these. http://www.last.fm/music/Barricades+Rise think you would like them alot
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illkillher wrote:
it is available in...http://www.taringa.net (through rapidshare)
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Edgreenwood wrote:
anyone know where i can get downloads of only forever...they dont sell the cd in singapore
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chorleyphil wrote:
great stuff, see you at the ROadhouse!
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lifesanocean wrote:
wonder if they'll ever come to the states...seems unlikely
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dadadidi wrote:
supper
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andythefox wrote:
omg i really like i suppose ^^
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manfred_macx wrote:
Don't Forget to Remember is being recognized as an Editor's Choice by the U.S. iTunes Store.
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LittleHiggy wrote:
Don't Know Any Better is the next single, can be pre-ordered - http://www.puressence.co.uk/
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tom_dissonance wrote:
drop down to earth is really good, massive return to form. one quam whaaaaaaaaa is third rock? sounds absolutely nothing like them!! lastfms changed alrite.. Third Rock is a mistagging of a soul/hip-hop act called Pure Essence, unfortunately last.fm corrects that name to the Manny indie band.
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grecoroman wrote:
the album entered the Greek charts at number 11
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AllergicToCrap wrote:
i bloody love palisades and i want to marry it. i also agree with paul _indie..i reckon only forever is the best album out of the first three
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Babs_05 wrote:
NNME - video for Drop Down To Earth :)
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Paul_indie wrote:
cant wait to hear it man! been playing only forever a lot last week and it occured to me no other album contains as many classics as that!
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Events
- Aug 22 Puressence The Bodega Social Club, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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Recent Activity
- vagnpap, vasilism, hawk1984 and 3 other people added Puressence to their libraries. Wednesday morning
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- Britpopgirl86, pkmoney, ImmoralDoll and 3 other people added Puressence to their libraries. 7 days ago
- anti_user tagged Puressence with ‘alternative’ and ‘indie rock’. 12 days ago
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