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Review: 'BLINDNESS'
'Wrapped In Plastic'   

-  Label: 'Saint Marie Records'
-  Genre: 'Indie' -  Release Date: '24th July 2015'-  Catalogue No: 'SMR066'

Our Rating:
This is the debut album by London-based (I'm guessing) trio of women I'm used to seeing around about town at all sorts of gigs. Yes Debbie Smith, the guitarist has been around for eons playing in Echobelly, Curve and Snowpony which will give you some Idea where they are coming from.

Right from the outset on Serves Me right they are in prime dreamy shoegaze territory with plenty of reverb cascading out of the speakers at you. Deserving sounds like it ought to be a garage rock song to begin with before all the other noises and vocals come in to tell us about the sins that have been committed.

Last One Dies reminds me of Band Of Susans and has a nice repeating abrasive guitar sound over the far sweeter-sounding vocals that could almost be a bit like Play Dead. The lyric asks what will a leech do when the last friend who still helps them out dies. No One Counts has some real feelings of alienation from everyone so it seems over a cool shoegaze-y tune.

Sunday Morning is not a cover but an original tale of waking up on a Sunday morning figuring it all out; how they ended up where they are with some nice chiming guitars for company that remind me a bit of Magic Hour even if the song is more like Salvation Sunday. Whatever, it's a very cool song on its own terms.

Humming Song has, well, a lot of humming in it over dark emblematic and carefully positioned percussion; drawing the listener in to this world of intrigue and is it lust that she needs as she extends her invitation? As for the guitar tsunami that follows the invite...well, damn, I want one of those invites.

Broken is dark break-up distress as she is broken over this semi-industrial guitar mangling and heavy drums and effects. Will she manage to recover and pick herself up off the floor? Buy the record and find out! All In One gets the guitars squalling and doesn't let go no matter how much the vocals may be sweet and dreamy. This also has a nasty squalling undertone that really makes the song.

The album closes with Confessions and I'm guessing they have a few to make. The squalling guitars rampage across it as Beth Rettig gives us her confessions. It's a fine ending to a good album of Shoegaze-style indie rock.


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  author: simonovitch

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BLINDNESS - Wrapped In Plastic