"... I am yours / you are mine..."
Listening to the darkly dreamy "Crawl Space" by Washington- DC dream pop band Blood Family Reunion, from their debut album "Lucky Mutation" (dropped March 8, 2024), and you will certainly be drawn in for so many reasons. It is not only the timeless sound that feels seeded from 90's post punk and maybe even 70's psychedelic rock but the evocative universe building going on. What feels sort of minimal at first, Stephen Lilly’s evocative Interpol-esque bass line and purposeful sludge metal drums courtesy of Donovan Lessard’s as Joe King’s trance guitars and other warbling ambience all provide the perfect illusory framework for Pam Carder beautiful melancholy vocal countenance, tension builds, cinematic emotions ebb, flow and then flood, as those tensions, angst and beauty grows so large that they engulf you.
The band says they "makes joyful music for lost souls and broken vessels. A shiny thing in the dirty sand" as Carder "sings about tragedies, family legends, and time travel" and while I haven't swam in the album as a whole, I have heard enough to feel the weight and reflect on my own journey, difficult and inspirational and everything in between while listening. It is that kind of sound.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Washington, DC dream pop band, Blood Family Reunion, makes joyful music for lost souls and broken vessels. A shiny thing in the dirty sand. Somber swells and lyrical riffs from Joe King’s guitars overlay Stephen Lilly’s driving bass melodies and Donovan Lessard’s foundational beats, glimmering crashes. Pam Carder sings about tragedies, family legends, and time travel.
Washington, DC dream pop band, Blood Family Reunion, makes joyful music for lost souls and broken vessels. A shiny thing in the dirty sand. Somber swells and lyrical riffs from Joe King’s guitars overlay Stephen Lilly’s driving bass melodies and Donovan Lessard’s foundational beats, glimmering crashes. Pam Carder sings about tragedies, family legends, and time travel.
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