Director Jenna Pace ventures into mountains of upstate New York for socially distanced solo video shoot. See Blesson Roy’s “Thousand” now.

Single taken from “Think Like Spring,” dreamy debut album from former member of slowcore pioneers Idaho, Pete Yorn’s longtime touring band.
 
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Terry Borden of Blesson Roy as photographed by Ankhurr Chawaak
 
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Blesson Roy | “Thousand”
 

 In the midst of a global pandemic, many have struggled to film while considering safety guidelines — especially when concepts for a scene often involve being indoors or having multiple people on set.
 
When directing the music video for Blesson Roy’s “Thousand,” Jenna Pace decided to confront the challenges presented by the virus, and use a COVID-safe method of filming to her advantage, building a beautifully simplistic video complimented by nature and fresh air.
 
“‘Thousand’ is more of an emotional, anthemic recording for me, which is a bit of a departure. It was thrilling to construct ‘Thousand’ and draw on unbridled emotion for this one,” says Blesson Roy mastermind, Terry Borden.
 
Hear “Thousand” via Bad Copy and see the video at Culture Collide or at the links below.
 
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[STREAM]: https://Fanatic.lnk.to/BlessonRoy-Thousand

 

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[MUSIC VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gi7eOyIxtc
 
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Blesson Roy | In The Press
 
“Articulate songwriting... deliciously catchy hooks.” — American Songwriter
 
“A new sound in a new decade.” — PopMatters
 
“Dreamy and earthy. — The Big Takeover
 
“Intricately-arranged pop.” — MXDWN
 
“One of the catchiest numbers of the year.” — Stereo Embers
 
“Hypnotic.” — Treble
 
“Sunny, Beach Boys-esque.” — Glide Magazine
 
“Beach Boys with Big Star’s vibrant melodies.” — Beats Per Minute
 
“Will expand your mind.” — BTRtoday
 
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Order Think Like Spring by Blesson Roy as a deluxe-package 180gm white vinyl edition at Bandcamp here.
 
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Blesson Roy
Think Like Spring
Out Now
(Slow Start Records)
 
Streaming Link:
STREAM FULL LP

Track Listing:
 
01. Soothe (STREAM)
02. Fingerprints Of Love
03. Undertow (STREAM | VIDEO)
04. Should’ve Known Better (LYRIC VIDEO)
05. Ana Left Spain
06. Stays With You (STREAM | VIDEO | LYRIC VIDEO)
07. The Loving Sea
08. Waterfall Drops
09. Maria Rain
10. Thousand (STREAM | VIDEO)
11. Near
12. I Can See You
13. Falling
14. The Gaps
 
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Blesson Roy | About
 
Think Like Spring is the debut album from life-long “music lover and music doer,” Terry Borden, the man behind Blesson Roy, and follows-up Borden’s twin 2020 EPs “Time Is A Crime” and “Time Is A Crime (Almost Acoustic).”
 
The album is the 14-song dreamy pop reflection of a child of 1970’s California whose early love of AM radio and his brother’s record collection led to membership in slowcore pioneers Idaho and Pete Yorn’s band Dirty Bird. Living in the UK during the explosion of subculture labels 4AD, Creation, Factory, and Rough Trade has also heavily influenced the Blesson Roy sound.
 
Think Like Spring was recorded during the COVID-19 lockdown.
 
“I was alone in the studio adjacent to my home and had no distractions other than the feeling of being truly alone in the recording space, for days and weeks on end,” Borden explains. “The positive effect of the pandemic isolation in the studio was the time and ability to focus on the musical details in the songs, and extend the searches for the right chemical reactions that manifested in each track.”
 
“Think Like Spring is a suggestion for a train of thought, which is focused on positivity and renewal,” Borden continues, discussing the album’s overall concept. “This is an especially important time for all of us to embrace the new positive and negative paradigm shifts with a sense of creativity and invention.”
 
About the album’s upcoming singles, Borden says, “‘Undertow’ took on a darker and lusher soundscape than I had originally imagined, having written that one as a Leonard Cohen or Nick Drake-influenced acoustic guitar song. As the recording unfolded, however, I realized that ‘Undertow’ needed a dark ambient soundscape rather than a stripped-down acoustic production.”
 
Borden explains that “Stays With You” was “a journey into dynamics with the chorus exploding out of the verses. It was a lot of fun and very satisfying to create the verse and chorus as almost two different bits of music that tied together emotionally but remained separate dynamically.”
 
“I ventured into some new areas musically,” he says of ‘Thousand,’ which “became more of an emotional, anthemic recording; a bit of a departure. It was thrilling to construct ‘Thousand’ and draw on unbridled emotion for that one.”
 
“I am pleased that a song with the characteristics of ‘Undertow’ sits next to an indie rocker like ‘Should’ve Known Better,’ Borden says of the album’s final planned single. “I have always loved records that have different types of songs with a fearless approach to production that serves the song not the style of music. The Beatles’ ‘White Album’ is the pinnacle of this type of approach.”
 
Ultimately, Borden says that he tried to give each song a separate identity with a unique personality.
 
“I can’t say if I succeeded in this, but it was the way I recorded and structured the sound of each track. Writing and recording Think Like Spring was pure joy with patches of frustration that happen in any creative process. The songs and the creation of the recordings felt like a warm place in a cold and dangerous world.”
 
 
Think Like Spring by Blesson Roy is out now via Slow Start Records. Terry Borden is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.
 
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Blesson Roy | Links
 
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Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion | Contact
 
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