Loveblind release debut LP, Sleeping Visions
Out physically/digitally via Saint Marie Records
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"Infectious and enthralling... [Loveblind] is destined to become a 21st-century alternative classic."
- For The Love of Bands
"Those of us who grew up listening to goth and shoegaze legends like Siouxsie and the Banshees, My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive realize those bands have no equals... until now, that is. Loveblind stand poised to take their place alongside their musical forebears."
- The Revue
March 27th, 2020 -- After three years of recording and months of advance singles, shoegaze supergroup Loveblind released their full-length debut, Sleeping Visions, on Saint Marie Records.
Pulling members of Crash City Saints, Whimsical, and Seasurfer, Loveblind started cobbling Sleeping Visions together in 2017 from their respective home studios across the US and Europe. The result is a fittingly sprawling 10-song set of shoegaze, dream pop, industrial, and metal, as evidenced by the dichotomy in previous singles "War Planets," "Goodbyes Without Goodbye" and "Daydream."
"The vision of the band from the beginning was to take all of our musical influences and mesh them together to create something new and unique," guitarist Wyatt Parkins told The Big Takeover in a recent interview. "I believe that vision was accomplished as much as reasonably possible."
Sleeping Visions is out on vinyl, CD, and digital platforms via Saint Marie Records.
Pulling members of Crash City Saints, Whimsical, and Seasurfer, Loveblind started cobbling Sleeping Visions together in 2017 from their respective home studios across the US and Europe. The result is a fittingly sprawling 10-song set of shoegaze, dream pop, industrial, and metal, as evidenced by the dichotomy in previous singles "War Planets," "Goodbyes Without Goodbye" and "Daydream."
"The vision of the band from the beginning was to take all of our musical influences and mesh them together to create something new and unique," guitarist Wyatt Parkins told The Big Takeover in a recent interview. "I believe that vision was accomplished as much as reasonably possible."
Sleeping Visions is out on vinyl, CD, and digital platforms via Saint Marie Records.
LOVEBLIND
Sleeping Visions
RELEASE DATE: March 27th, 2020
1. War Planets
2. Sleeping Visions
3. Daydream
4. Goodbyes Without Goodbye
5. Mistress
6. Ice Song
7. White Piano Black Dress
8. Saturnine
9. A Strange Place
10. We Land
While “international synthwave supergroup” is enough of a descriptor to turn some heads, Loveblind are all the more impressive for making music since 2017 without ever having been in the same room.
Spearheaded by Saint Marie Records owner Wyatt Parkins, the Texas-based label head initially joined forces with Joshua Garman of Florida’s Crash City Saints. The duo soon tapped Germany-based vocalist and songwriter Dorian Electrique of Seasurfer fame for her strikingly icy vocals, followed closely by fellow Seasurfer member Mikel Wegener on bass. Rounding things out, Neil Burkdoll of Florida’s Whimsical came aboard on guitar.
After years of incremental recording, file transfers, phone calls, video chats and constant Facebook chats, their upcoming debut album, Sleeping Visions, will be unveiled in March 2020 via Saint Marie.
Opening on the abrasively industrial “War Planets,” Loveblind aim and succeed in creating an album completely alien up against their previous bands. Where single “Daydream” fully lives up to its title in soaring dream pop, “White Piano Black Dress” (featuring Ringo Deathstarr’s Elliott Frazier) isn’t afraid to switch gears and careen towards earth with massive, shoegazing guitar work and chirpy synth percussion.
With Electrique’s vocals kept front and center guiding Sleeping Visions, its ten songs aim to interpret dreams with as much lucidity as our waking states, but Visions is far from a half-awake listen. If anything, Loveblind’s debut introduces a band that not only takes its members’ past pedigrees and distance as a challenge, but a superpower.
2. Sleeping Visions
3. Daydream
4. Goodbyes Without Goodbye
5. Mistress
6. Ice Song
7. White Piano Black Dress
8. Saturnine
9. A Strange Place
10. We Land
While “international synthwave supergroup” is enough of a descriptor to turn some heads, Loveblind are all the more impressive for making music since 2017 without ever having been in the same room.
Spearheaded by Saint Marie Records owner Wyatt Parkins, the Texas-based label head initially joined forces with Joshua Garman of Florida’s Crash City Saints. The duo soon tapped Germany-based vocalist and songwriter Dorian Electrique of Seasurfer fame for her strikingly icy vocals, followed closely by fellow Seasurfer member Mikel Wegener on bass. Rounding things out, Neil Burkdoll of Florida’s Whimsical came aboard on guitar.
After years of incremental recording, file transfers, phone calls, video chats and constant Facebook chats, their upcoming debut album, Sleeping Visions, will be unveiled in March 2020 via Saint Marie.
Opening on the abrasively industrial “War Planets,” Loveblind aim and succeed in creating an album completely alien up against their previous bands. Where single “Daydream” fully lives up to its title in soaring dream pop, “White Piano Black Dress” (featuring Ringo Deathstarr’s Elliott Frazier) isn’t afraid to switch gears and careen towards earth with massive, shoegazing guitar work and chirpy synth percussion.
With Electrique’s vocals kept front and center guiding Sleeping Visions, its ten songs aim to interpret dreams with as much lucidity as our waking states, but Visions is far from a half-awake listen. If anything, Loveblind’s debut introduces a band that not only takes its members’ past pedigrees and distance as a challenge, but a superpower.
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