ABGESAGT: PURPLE PILGRIMS | KINLAW

Psychic sisterhood and wistful wanderlust are the twin energies feeding lush ceremonial dream-pop duo Clementine Valentine (Purple Pilgrims) – AKA multi-instrumentalist, home producers Valentine and Clementine Nixon. Raised itinerantly in Hong Kong and on New Zealand’s South Island, with deep backgrounds in folk music (their great-grandfather Davie Stewart was recorded by Alan Lomax), the sisters adapted by devising their own telepathic inner worlds. After the Christchurch earthquake of 2011 leveled their home they migrated to the North Island, crashing with friends and sleeping in cars, eventually returning to China, where they began performing crouched sets of gauzy, angelic noise.