{"id":37529,"date":"2021-11-08T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=37529"},"modified":"2021-11-07T07:00:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T12:00:26","slug":"dreamgaze-band-blushing-announce-possessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=37529","title":{"rendered":"Dreamgaze band Blushing announce \u2018Possessions\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Austin, Texas&#8217;\u00a0Blushing are the latest signing to Brooklyn&#8217;s Kanine Records and are gearing up to release\u00a0their latest album \u2018Possessions\u2019\u00a0on February 18th. This record is a real shoegaze\u00a0<em>Who&#8217;s Who<\/em>\u00a0with production from fellow Austinite Elliott Frazier of\u00a0Ringo Deathstarr\u00a0and mastering from Mark Gardener of\u00a0Ride. Lead off single <em>Blame<\/em> ft. Miki Berenyi of\u00a0Lush\u00a0and Piroshka came out on Oct 26th, and picked up love from KEXP, Flood and more. \u2018Possessions\u2019 serves as a 1990s transport. Complete with charismatic vocals, dreamy guitar hooks and \u00a0swirling bass lines, it is an album filled with dream pop intensity. You can pre-orders copy of the album at <a href=\"https:\/\/weareblushing.bandcamp.com\/\">weareblushing.<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/weareblushing.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bandcamp<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/weareblushing.bandcamp.com\/\">.com<\/a>. Watch the video clip for <em>Blame<\/em> via YouTube below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H2S68ax2Z9M?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Blushing\u00a0features two husband and wife duos consisting of\u00a0Michelle Soto\u00a0(guitar, vocals),\u00a0Jacob Soto\u00a0(drums),\u00a0Christina Carmona\u00a0(vocals, bass), and\u00a0Noe Carmona\u00a0(guitar). Jacob and Noe have been lifelong friends that played in bands growing up in El Paso, TX, though they both moved to Austin around 2009, meeting their wives there coincidentally at the same bar (Side Bar). \u201c<em>Naturally all four of us became close friends.\u201d<\/em> As Michelle was learning guitar, her natural talent to write music started to emerge, creating vocal melodies and guitar parts in her bedroom. Christina, \u00a0already a classically trained singer, was recruited by Michelle to lend her vocal talents and soon grabbed a bass, taught herself to play and joined in to help solidify the songs. Soon Jacob and Noe began to notice how much potential the songs had so they joined in on a practice session to help flesh out guitar, drums and vocals. From there the husbands never left the group, and Blushing was formed. Their natural chemistry and likeminded musical influences helped solidify their ongoing writing process. The band released their first EP\u00a0\u2018Tether\u2019\u00a0in 2017, followed by their EP\u00a0\u2018Weak\u2019 in 2018 with Austin Town Hall Records, and most recently their sold-out, debut self-titled LP \u2018Blushing\u2019 via Wallflower Records in 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Blushing went into the studio in December 2019 to record\u00a0\u2018Possessions\u2019\u00a0with engineer and producer Elliott Frazier of\u00a0Ringo Deathstarr, they \u00a0had no idea just how much the world would soon change. The studio served as a soundproof safe room for the band, offering an escape from the \u00a0noise of a mad world all around. When everything was finally complete, what revealed itself was an album that emerged from new depths, heavier in some ways and lighter in others. Embracing the spectrum of life and relationships while understanding the need for escape and whimsy. The album title \u2018Possessions\u2019 is an observation of the frenetic time in which it was created. A frenzied world possessed through fear or ideals but also with the objects, or possessions so desperately searched for and collected. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While recording\u00a0\u2018Possessions\u2019\u00a0the band tweeted a list of things they wanted to accomplish \u2013 including of course &#8211; to one day work on music with Miki Berenyi. The band had established a prior musical friendship with the Lush front woman after recording a cover of the Lush song <em>Out of Control<\/em> that received a tweet of appreciation from Miki herself. \u201c<em>After declaring our goal of collaboration, we received a DM from her expressing \u00a0her excitement and willingness to collaborate on the new record.\u201d<\/em> An unfinished track and lyric sheet for <em>Blame<\/em> was digitally whisked off to Miki in London with the request that she add any vocals she would like. What she returned was a beautifully creative melding of harmonies and counter melodies and an absolute stellar final track. The band now enjoy chats about recording music, wine and meeting at the pubs or playing shows \u00a0together when traveling to the UK becomes safe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the record was complete, Blushing knew they wanted to have the track <em>The Fires<\/em> remixed to really get a unique and dreamy feel they \u00a0always thought it had. Enter Mark Gardener of RIDE. Having once met at an Austin show in October 2019, Blushing knew he was working with other \u00a0musicians over at OX4 Sound in the UK, so they reached out to see if he had interest in putting his own spin on it. Mark responded, not only expressing his excitement to mix the track, but also his willingness to finalize the record and master the all of the tracks as well. And everything \u00a0was going extremely well, that is, until just as the mixing and mastering process was wrapping up, the February 2021 freak blizzard that devastated much of Texas put the band out of commission for over a week, losing power and water. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Broken water pipes and getting back to normal caused a slight but most unexpected delay in the ability to communicate back and forth with Mark about the album, who expressed concern for the band\u2019s well-being as news of the storm reached all the way to the UK. But eventually the snow melted, the lights and internet returned and what the band received was a punchy, glimmering track, a perfect balance to the brooding instruments and lyrics of the song along with perfect master tracks for the entire album. \u00a0<br><br>Blushing is a part of the modern dream pop and shoegaze community that has contributed to the resurgence of the genre. Enlisting longtime friend Elliot Frazier of Ringo Deathstarr to produce and engineer the album in their native Austin, TX has helped Blushing create an album that \u00a0all indie music lovers need to hear. Fans of LUSH, Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, RIDE, Slowdive won\u2019t be able to resist this album. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information about Blushing, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blushingmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blushingmusic.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Austin, Texas&#8217;\u00a0Blushing are the latest signing to Brooklyn&#8217;s Kanine Records and are gearing up to release\u00a0their latest album \u2018Possessions\u2019\u00a0on February 18th. 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