NEW ALBUM SHAKE THE DISEASE DUE LATE 2021
French electronic pop band BLOW return today with new single ‘One Life’, the second cut to emerge from the Parisian three piece’s forthcoming second album, Shake The Disease,due for release in late 2021. The follow up to BLOW’s 2018 debut Vertigo, the album has been produced by Kitsuné-fostered talent Crayon (who’s previously collaborated with Phoenix, Yuksek and Simian Mobile Disco). ‘One Life’ is now streaming across all platforms from here, alongside a live studio version of the track which is available now from here.
Written by BLOW – Quentin Guglielmi (vocals), Thomas Clairice (bass, formerly also a touring member of Her) and Jean-Etienne Maillard (guitar) – during last year’s global lockdown, the hip hop-adjacent warmth of ‘One Life’ is offset by bruised lyrics that bear the challenges of staring down your 30s in an increasingly unsettled and unsettling world. Tapping into the rub between who we want to be as people and who we actually are day-to-day, BLOW’s songwriting holds a mirror up to a generation increasingly forced to question everything. In a statement released alongside ‘One Life’ BLOW say; We are a shredded humanity, laughing about the sky and the trees. Withstanding time with darkness in our mind. Time goes by but madness persists. Only the abyss remains green. Even the wise are absurd.
‘One Life’ and previous single release ‘Full Delight’ are the first fruits of a creative left turn from BLOW following the release of Vertigo. Driven by an instinct to leaven the completely electronic textures which defined the band’s debut EPs and album release with more organic sounds, across Shake The Disease Crayon keeps the layered synths integral to BLOW’s blissed out sound in balance alongside Jean-Etienne Maillard’s alternately gauzy and rich guitar lines and the elastic, languorous bass lines of of Thomas Clairice.
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