THE BLAM
REVEAL UNRELEASED ALBUM
“It's quite
a skill, being odd... But to remain as oddly off-centre as The Blam takes
some doing... The Blam require patience before their melodies sneak inside
your skull, but when they do they unleash a promisingly slanted
noise.”
-NME
When the New York Music Scene
decided to get cool again in the early 2000’s, bands were popping out of
the woodwork. Some of them were memorable (Have you heard of The Strokes?)
and some of them not so much. Of the stellar bands to emerge from
that wave, The Blam were at the crest right along with Interpol and the
Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Headed by singer/guitarist
Jerry Adler (now of Flugente and Wave Sleep Wave) along with Reuben Maher
(guitar), Itamar Ziegler (bass/vocals) and Yuval Lion (drums), the band
created a buzz in the rock revival era that had everyone excited. Breaking
loudly into college radio and the CMJ charts, The Blam were on fire,
literally, releasing two albums in the course of 11 months.
Titled The Blam and Caveat Emptor, both have
done well as they have made their mark on the indie music scene
forever.
While all good
things must eventually come to an end, The Blam’s abrupt disappearance
was particularly curious. Having just gone into to the studio to record a
new album, the band split in early 2005 without any warning. Since then,
that album has been sitting in the vault begging to be
heard.
Fans have often wondered what
the next Blam record would have to offer and now they have the chance to
find out, as the first of those sequestered albums, Blow Wind
Blow, will finally see the light of day.
Blow Wind Blow
offers a more Beatles-esque palette of songs with a production vibe
reminiscent of Friends–era Beach Boys. It shows the
evolution of a band growing on its own terms. As the next chapter of The
Blam was seemingly just beginning, the grinding guitars and elevated tempos
were yielding, at least temporarily, to a lovely and mature exploration of
both another side of Adler’s writing persona and the creative range of
the four musicians.
The time has come friends for
you to rediscover one of the essential gems of the rock revival. Are you
ready?
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