Latest EP follows-up “Think
Like Spring” solo debut album, which continues to draw attention a year out
from release; Hear
remixed/remastered “Ana” now.
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Terry Borden of Blesson Roy as photographed by Ankhurr Chawaak
[YOUTUBE]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjddH-XmTvU
[SOUNDCLOUD]:
https://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/blesson-roy-ana-left-spain-2021-version
Think
Like Spring is the debut solo 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).”
Borden’s long career has seen him traveling the world as bassist with Pete Yorn’s band and as a member of
slowcore pioneers, Idaho, prior to
the beginnings of Blesson Roy.
On Sept. 24th,
2021, Borden will release a new
three-song Blesson Roy EP “Ana Left Spain +2,” which offers up a 2021 remix/remaster of
the popular Think Like Spring album cut, accompanied by two all-new songs, “Bed of Roses” and “No Other”.
Borden comments on how “Ana
Left Spain” came to be remixed, instead of only being remastered, for this
release, explaining, “We prepared the track for remastering, and in the course
of that task, started fixing some things in the frequency balances. We came to
the point where we said, ‘What the hell, let’s mix it again better!”
“Ana Left
Spain +2,” featuring the remixed,
remastered version of the Think Like Spring cut, along with
two all-new Blesson Roy originals,
arrives on Sept. 24th via
Slow Start Records.
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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 | VIDEO [SWEETENED])
04. Should’ve Known Better (VIDEO | LYRIC VIDEO | REMIX)
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 | “Undertow”
[VIDEO
(SWEETENED)]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QliQI73nvM
“‘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. I had the time and
intention to be open to following songs in one direction, and then going in the
opposite musical direction, until it seemed that the song had found its way
home in the recording.” — Terry Borden,
Blesson Roy
“‘Undertow’
is yet another example of a bit of magic from Blesson Roy, and damn if he didn’t fill this song with everything
dope. After I listened to it about five times, I decided I had to make
something that gives a sense of what I see and feel when I hear it. So, I took
a look at an art piece that I was working on and some recent footage I shot with
a model in Death Valley, and start blending them while listening to the song
over and over and over, and I go timeless in my head and when then I come to, I’m
looking at something strangely perfect.
“It is layered and dense and colorful and even a bit
haunting with a headless horsewoman, and feels very much like being stuck in an
undertow, maybe gonna die, but just waiting it out kind of patiently until it’s
over. Of course it is dark out and it turns out the whole day had passed, so
oops, I guess I’ll have to get back to everyone tomorrow.” — Sweeten, Director, “Undertow”
See the “Sweetened”
video of “Undertow” by Blesson Roy now via It’s
Psychedelic Baby Magazine here
or at the link above.
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Blesson Roy | “Should’ve
Known Better”
[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHB3XhFITaI
[LYRIC VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrnUAnNrcmM
[STREAM]: https://Fanatic.lnk.to/BlessonRor-ShouldveKnownBetter
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Hear “Should’ve
Known Better” by Blesson Roy via
American
Songwriter and see the video at Under
The Radar or at the links below.
Calling back to the bright tones and sweet melodies of
Britpop. Amidst a jangly guitar-led instrumental and sharp vocal hook, Terry Borden of Blesson Roy takes listeners on another trip back through his record
collection, showing his ability to incorporate and synthesize styles as both a
creator and a fan.
“It’s basically the designed cinematic and aural
engaged focus, rhythm, and pacing of a real ‘climactic’ human moment,” says
director Tom Gorai aka Sweeten, the Grammy® and Emmy®-nominated
producer who has also produced videos for Pearl
Jam (“Jeremy”), Nine Inch Nails, and A Tribe Called Quest tells Under
The Radar of his clip for the Blesson
Roy single “Should’ve Known Better,”
which depicts a masked Los Angeles, courtesy of a cyclist who biffs it, and a
liquor store parking lot dancer who clearly does not.
The “Should’ve
Known Better,” video captures the “happy-sad emotional connection” that Borden – a veteran of slowcore pioneers
Idaho and world-wide tours as part
of Pete Yorn’s band – recently told American
Songwriter he was working towards when writing the song. “I like the
energy, the guitars, and the contrasting bittersweet light and dark tones of
the words and music. The chord progression was persistently coming out when I
picked up the guitar over a long period of time. It required a permanent home!”
Influenced by The
Smiths, Leonard Cohen, The Beatles, David Bowie, New Order, Lou Reed, Punk and Post-Punk from the
80s and 90s, as well as the roots of those movements from the 60s and 70s, Borden brings these and more to his
debut album, Think Like Spring, out now via Slow Start Records.
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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)”.
On Sept. 24th,
2021, Borden will release a new
three-song Blesson Roy EP “Ana Left
Spain +2,” which offers up a 2021 remix/remaster of the popular Think
Like Spring album cut, accompanied by two all-new songs, “Bed of Roses” and “No Other”.
Think Like Spring 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. “Ana Left Spain +2” arrives on Sept. 24th, 2021. Terry Borden is available for
interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.
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Think Like Spring
Out Now
(Slow Start Records)
STREAM FULL LP
Track Listing:
02. Fingerprints Of Love
03. Undertow (STREAM | VIDEO | VIDEO [SWEETENED])
04. Should’ve Known Better (VIDEO | LYRIC VIDEO | REMIX)
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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