Terry Borden (also formerly of slowcore pioneers, Idaho)
“blends strings, electronics and a
classic pop sound” on one of 2020’s most genre-traversing albums.
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Terry Borden of Blesson Roy as photographed by Ankhurr Chawaak
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Blesson Roy | “Undertow”
“It’s a hypnotic track that blends strings,
electronics and a classic pop sound into something both psychedelic and highly
accessible," says Treble in its
premiere
coverage of the “Undertow” music
video by Blesson Roy. Terry Borden, the man behind Blesson Roy, says of the song in a
statement, “‘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 it needed a dark ambient
soundscape rather than a stripped-down acoustic production.”
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Pre-order Think Like Spring by Blesson Roy as a deluxe-package 180gm
white vinyl edition at Bandcamp here.
Think Like Spring by Blesson Roy,
out Nov. 27th on Slow Start
Records.
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Blesson Roy | In The Press
“A new sound in a new decade.” — PopMatters
“Allows the listener to feel a deep connection.” — Ghettoblaster
“Dreamy and earthy. — The Big Takeover
“Sunny, Beach
Boys-esque.” — Glide Magazine
“The Beach Boys
with Big Star’s vibrant melodies.” — Beats
Per Minute
“Will expand your mind.” — BTRtoday
“If The Beach
Boys did a new wave album.” — Higher
Plain Music
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Blesson Roy
Think Like Spring
Nov. 27th, 2020
(Slow Start Records)
Track Listing:
01. Soothe (STREAM)
02. Fingerprints Of Love
03. Undertow (STREAM | VIDEO)
04. Should’ve Known Better
05. Ana Left Spain
06. Stays With You
07. The Loving Sea
08. Waterfall Drops
09. Maria Rain
10. Thousand
11. Near
12. I Can See You
13. Falling
14. The Gaps
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Blesson Roy | About
Blesson Roy
– Think Like Spring – Slow Start
Records – Nov. 27th, 2020
Think Like Spring is the upcoming 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
arrives Nov. 27th, 2020 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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