"turn around dear mistress"
The Official Video for Loveblind's dreamy (maybe nightmarish) Mistress from their debut album "Sleeping Visions" is shot in an odd aspect ratio, either super wide screen or super squashed (take your pick) giving the illusion, the sensation of secretly looking through a missing slat or the kind of window slit in some fortified bunker. The song is heavy with mystery and dark lyrics amid the both industrial punk and electro pop mystique glued together by Dorian Electrique's magnetic vocal aesthetic. Magnets can draw you in and repel and while her hypnotic (even sometimes alien-esque) voice has a deeply gravitational pull, her words can (maybe) push away. Electrique sings about the "mistress" and through the poetic lyrics, one could draw a dark conclusion that maybe the "mistress" is not the other woman or man who lures with sexual deeds and lust but maybe the "mistress" is all the allures (opiates of the masses) that keep us as a society away from darker truths that give away to even darker consequences....
"here comes the silence
a cannonball
the canyons fall
here comes her laughter
a cannonball
the atom bomb
here comes her silence"
Maybe the sliver, the window slit makes sense, revealing shiny baubles before the darkness.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
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 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. 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.
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
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 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. 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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