Loveblind
The second single, Daydream (and Official Video) from Loveblind's vast debut album "Sleeping Visions" is a dreamy powerful affair cast in shoe gaze and synth wave affectations pushed through the formidable inspirational fog by Dorian Electrique's commanding vocal presence. She has a vocal aesthetic poised poetically in an art rock gaze. She can emote in intimate ways and in rebel yells. The big rock narrative here feels like a big futuristic crashing crescendo with fanning guitars, walls of bass, heavy dominant drums, droning sounds and, of course, Electrique who clear cuts a the path through it all.
As I reported in an earlier post, "Sleeping Visions" has been years in the making. A labor of love since 2017, the members of this "international synthwave supergroup" have been building layers of sounds into songs without being in the same room, or building for that matter. Loveblind is, in fact, the brain child of Texas based Saint Marie Records owner Wyatt Parkins who reached out to Joshua Garman of Crash City Saints (Florida) and then reached out to Germany based vocalist and songwriter Dorian Electrique of Seasurfer for her striking vox. Mikel Wegener (of Seasurfer) was added to the fray for bass and guitarist / drummer Neil Burkdoll of Florida's Whimsical finished out the lineup.
The debut album from Loveblind, "Sleeping Visions" Out on Vinyl, CD and Digital 3/27/20 via Saint Marie Records.
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Robb Donker Curtius
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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 and soon tapped Germany-based vocalist and songwriter Dorian Electrique of Seasurfer fame for her strikingly icy vocals. Fellow Seasurfer member Mikel Wegener was brought on for bass and guitarist/drummer Neil Burkdoll of Florida’s Whimsical rounded out the lineup.
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. 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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