I love a good broken song and even more an entire string of them strung into an album.
After all, it can be difficult to keep our eye on the ball, so to speak, for anything longer than a click and like these days and when we do look up from the screen what’s there to be seen in the larger world can be offputting. So broken melodies, haunted tracks, or really any kind of disruption of straight-faced lyricism feels apropos. And welcome, as if we’re among kindred spirits.
“Efficient Space welcomes Th Blisks to the fold with their mutant strain of melodica dub, torched hip hop breaks, post-punk and procession song.”
Amelia Besseny, Cooper Bowman, and Yuta Matsumura are Th Blisks and Elixa is a lovely, warped blend of broken songs.
From the liner notes:
Elixa attempts to bottle some pinged-eye wonder at the magic surrounding, whether in the city or the bush. Informed by the old but drug into The New, it is a begrudgingly current Australien record that respectively nods at the UK’s sound history.
Thankfully, there’s still magic (as long as we squint).