Remnants of a Deeper Purity
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{{Infobox album
| name = Remnants of a Deeper Purity
| type = studio
| artist = Black Tape for a Blue Girl
| cover = Remnantspurity.jpg
| alt =
| released = June 7, 1996
| recorded = January 1995–April 1996
| venue =
| studio = The Lush Garden, Los Angeles, California and Chicago, Illinois
| genre = Darkwave
| length = 77:08
| label = Projekt
| producer = Sam Rosenthal
| prev_title = This Lush Garden Within
| prev_year = 1993
| next_title = As One Aflame Laid Bare by Desire
| next_year = 1999
}}
Remnants of a Deeper Purity is the sixth studio album by the darkwave band Black Tape for a Blue Girl. It was released on June 7, 1996, by Projekt Records.{{cite web |title=black tape for a blue girl - Remnants Of A Deeper Purity (CD, Album) at Discogs |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/163967 |accessdate=11 November 2017}} A cassette version was released in 1997 on Poland's Black Flames Productions. In 2007, a 10th-anniversary edition of the album was released, with a bonus disc, including the With My Sorrows EP from the same era.
Black Tape for a Blue Girl's Sam Rosenthal described the album as "an album of rebirth – the internal analysis and exploration that paves the way for a major upheaval."{{cite web |url=http://www.projekt.com/projekt/product.asp?sku=PRO00068&dept%5Fid=10 |title=black tape for a blue girl: remnants of a deeper purity |publisher=Projekt Records |accessdate=April 11, 2020 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120704043628/http://www.projekt.com/projekt/product.asp?dept_id=10&sku=PRO00068 |archivedate=July 4, 2012 |url-status=dead}}
Critical reception
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web |last=Raggett |first=Ned |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/remnants-of-a-deeper-purity-mw0000612840 |title=Remnants of a Deeper Purity – Black Tape for a Blue Girl |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=September 28, 2016}}
}}
AllMusic critic Ned Raggett wrote that Remnants of a Deeper Purity "succeeds like no other Black Tape release before it, the logical extension of Rosenthal's musical and lyrical foci into a lengthy, commanding, and beautiful experience." He ranked it at number 93 on his list of the best albums of the 1990s for Freaky Trigger.{{cite web |last=Raggett |first=Ned |url=http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~tewing/ned/n93.html |title=93. Black Tape For A Blue Girl – Remnants Of A Deeper Purity |website=Freaky Trigger |date=October 1999 |accessdate=September 28, 2016 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919065747/http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~tewing/ned/n93.html |archivedate=September 19, 2015 |url-status=dead}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
| title1 = Redefine Pure Faith
| length1 = 5:19
| title2 = Fin de siècle
| length2 = 5:53
| title3 = With My Sorrows
| length3 = 7:03
| title4 = For You Will Burn Your Wings Upon the Sun
| length4 = 26:20
| title5 = Wings Tattered, Fallen
| length5 = 6:25
| title6 = Fitful
| length6 = 4:56
| title7 = Remnants of a Deeper Purity
| length7 = 4:36
| title8 = Again, to Drift (For Veronika)
| length8 = 6:00
| title9 = I Have No More Answers
| length9 = 10:33
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = 10th anniversary edition bonus disc{{cite web |url=http://www.projekt.com/projekt/product.asp?dept%5Fid=10&sku=PRO00186 |title=black tape for a blue girl: remnants of a deeper purity (10th anniversary 2-CD edition) |publisher=Projekt Records |accessdate=April 11, 2020 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120609182638/http://www.projekt.com/projekt/product.asp?dept_id=10&sku=PRO00186 |archivedate=June 9, 2012 |url-status=dead}}
| title1 = En la mar ay una torre
| length1 = 0:59
| title2 = With My Sorrows Part 2
| length2 = 10:13
| title3 = With My Sorrows Part 3
| length3 = 6:25
| title4 = I Have No More Answers
| note4 = radio edit
| length4 = 3:39
| title5 = Redefine Pure Faith
| note5 = live
| length5 = 4:32
| title6 = Through Sky Blue Rooms
| note6 = live
| length6 = 2:29
| title7 = Remnants of a Deeper Purity
| note7 = live
| length7 = 3:57
| title8 = Across a Thousand Blades '96
| length8 = 3:55
| length9 = 2:05
}}
References
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