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STRANGE COMMUNICATION

is bliss

STRANGE COMMUNICATION

Club Ac30
  • 180g Transparent Seafoam Green lp

    Released: 7th Jun 2019

    £18.99
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Highly anticipated debut album from Portsmouth based psych aficionados, Is Bliss.

Having received critical acclaim for their first two EP's; 'Velvet Dreams' and the follow-up 'The Honeycomb Explosion', the south coast trio have been busy in the studio and have created a no nonsense, full on, psych induced jewel. Formed via a shared love of Slowdive, Spacemen 3 and Verve, their incendiary live shows have caused a stir across the underground psych scene. On 'Strange Communication', Is Bliss paint a sprawling sonic picture. Opening with the impressive grandeur of 'Belong', the hypnotically charged reverberations of 'Can't Sleep Forever' incite a drug-induced cataclysm. An emotional rawness can be heard in Jimmy Stuart's passioned vocal - this is the sound of an individual desperate to say afloat as chaos ensues all around. Melodic new single 'All I See Is You' is an intimate and confessional tale of love and heartbreak while the mesmeric 'Fall' evokes 'A Storm in Heaven' era Verve, fizzing with effervescent guitars and blissed out shoegaze. Sitar and layers of droning instrumentation create a psychedelic paradise on the visceral 'Wonder' while the album pace is picked up a notch once more with 'What To Believe', a near-perfect amalgam of explosive sound before the reverb-charged 'Lost Thoughts' brings a close to the album. Is Bliss have received a heavy dose of radio support from BBC Radio 6 Music including Lauren Laverne, Tom Ravenscroft and Radcliffe & Maconie along with BBC Introducing and Amazing Radio. "Fusing the soundscapes of early Verve with reverb-fuelled delirium in the vein of Ride or Chapterhouse" DROWNED IN SOUND. "One of the foremost voices in the shoegaze underground" CLASH "Sitar splashed, swirling 60s pysch rock" GOD IS IN THE TV.