GainesvillePure Bathing Culture · 2012

pitchfork

“Gainesville, Florida, the town after which Pure Bathing Culture's debut single is named, isn't known for its drizzly climes-- quite the opposite. But there's something about the lead song from the Portland-via-New York duo's first EP that glowers like a grey English afternoon, the dejected guitar lines stinging like the watery rods that poured through the Sundays' Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic.”