{"id":30381,"date":"2019-01-18T12:15:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T17:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=30381"},"modified":"2020-05-28T21:27:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T01:27:16","slug":"blessed-announce-debut-lp-share-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=30381","title":{"rendered":"Blessed announce debut LP + share &#8216;Disease&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Blessed, purveyors of an anarchic and cerebral brand of roiling post-punk, has self-released two EPs<strong>,&nbsp;<\/strong>and toured relentlessly playing over 200 dates with artists like&nbsp;Preoccupations,&nbsp;The Courtneys,&nbsp;Chastity, and&nbsp;The Austerity Program. Now, they&#8217;ve announcing their long awaited debut LP,&nbsp;&#8216;Salt&#8217;. To coincide with the announcement, they&#8217;ve shared <em>Disease<\/em> via YouTube below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-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\/0SdLkyEIno8?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>Due out on April 5th, &#8216;Salt&#8217; was recorded and mixed over three weeks in Montreal with producer&nbsp;Jace Lasek&nbsp;(Suuns,&nbsp;Wolf Parade,&nbsp;Land of Talk), and&nbsp;finds this already expansive group pushing the boundaries of their sound. Having incorporated a fifth member on guitar\/keys, they explore the nuances only touched on in previous releases, with songs that range from short, staccato, punk-tinged flares to lengthy escapades that recall Deerhunter&#8217;s noise-rock freak-outs and Do Make Say Think&#8217;s lush cinematic passages.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018Salt\u2019 track list<\/strong><br>1. Rolled In Glass<br>2. Thought<br>3. Purpose &amp; Conviction<br>4. Zealot<br>5. Pill<br>6. Anchor<br>7. Disease<br>8. Caribou<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blessed&#8217;s \u2018Salt\u2018 will be released April 5th.\u00a0It\u2019s available for preorder\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hivemindpr.us10.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=04780c244c226dd8f0096243b&amp;id=da0bf9bb4e&amp;e=998dd35436\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In conversation with Paste the band reveal the typically&nbsp;meticulous process that went into the track&#8217;s creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>We had created two versions of the song while recording it, because we felt unsure of the direction we wanted to end up with<\/em>,&#8221; the band tell Paste.&nbsp;&#8220;<em>Everybody tracked this song twice, structurally the same but with very different aesthetic choices regarding the sound design. We happened to be in the same place at the same time as our friends The Avulsions at the time as well, so Josh stopped in to track a couple moments on this track. One was much safer, cleaner, and almost completely devoid of effects in any form. We mixed the album in the middle of a lengthy tour, swapping headphones in the back of the van and during downtime between soundchecking and bands starting. When we were ready to start mixing this track, Jace Lasek, who engineered our album, sent us this version. It was the first track on the record that we sent back with zero notes and felt needed nothing done. After spending so much time going back and forth while recording, we had gone too far into our own heads to realize one felt overbearingly better than the other.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In support of\u00a0&#8216;Salt&#8217;,\u00a0Blessed will be touring extensively in 2019. Their first set of dates, which begin in March and will include a stop at SXSW\u00a0are detailed below.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tour dates<\/strong><br>03\/07 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Underground<br>03\/08 Denver, CO @ Nude City Relief Center<br>03\/09 Albuquerque, NM @ The Fly Honey Warehouse<br>03\/10 Denton, TX @ TBA<br>03\/13 &#8211; 03\/16 Austin, TX @ SXSW<br>04\/05 Abbotsford, BC @ Rugby Club<br>04\/06 Vancouver, BC @ Red Gate<br>04\/09 Calgary, AB @ The Palomino&nbsp;Smokehouse &amp; Social Club<br>04\/10 Lethbridge, AB @ The Slice<br>04\/11 Edmonton, AB @ The Buckingham<br>04\/12 Saskatoon, SK @ SK Indoor Skatepark<br>04\/13 Winnipeg, MB @ The Handsome Daughter<br>04\/15 Fargo, ND @ The Aquarium<br>04\/16 Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry*<br>04\/18 Iowa City, IA @ Iowa City Gabe&#8217;s (Downstairs)*<br>04\/19 Madison, WI @ Art In*<br>04\/20 Milwaukee, WI @ X Ray Arcade*<br>04\/21 Chicago, IL @ Subterranean (Downstairs)<br>04\/22 St. Louis, MO @ FOAM<br>04\/23 Fayetteville, AR @ Backspace<br>04\/25 Nashville, TN @ Drkmttr Collective<br>04\/26 Lexington, KY @ Best Friend Bar<br>04\/27 Cincinnati, OH @ The Comet<br>04\/28 Pittsburgh, PA @ Black Forge&nbsp;<br>* w\/ Tunic&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Blessed, purveyors of an anarchic and cerebral brand of roiling post-punk, has self-released two EPs,&nbsp;and toured relentlessly playing over 200 dates with artists like&nbsp;Preoccupations,&nbsp;The Courtneys,&nbsp;Chastity, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=30381\" title=\"Blessed announce debut LP + share &#8216;Disease&#8217;\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"On Culture Addicts: Blessed announce debut LP + share 'Disease'","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[22,23,28,30],"tags":[7464,7895,925,3977,1245],"class_list":["post-30381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar-rock","category-indie","category-music","category-new-release","tag-blessed","tag-disease","tag-post-punk","tag-salt","tag-tour-dates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/c6e8e2f7-fc6f-4083-a221-4d8a470f982e.jpg?fit=4000%2C2814&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-7U1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33338,"url":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=33338","url_meta":{"origin":30381,"position":0},"title":"Fearing announce debut LP \u2018Shadow\u2019 + tour dates with Soft Kill","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"February 1, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Fresh off a West Coast tour with Cold Showers, Oakland\u2019s Fearing have announced that their debut LP,\u00a0\u2018Shadow,\u2019 will be out on April 10, 2020\u00a0via Funeral Party Records. 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