What you say
No-one has reviewed Paper Television by The Blow yet.
What we say
 This record left our Brian feeling ecstatic.
Talking of maverick, fantastic talent spotting genius label Tomlab are unleashing a new album by
THE BLOW, former K
records cult popsters. 'Paper Television' is mischievously sassy,
morphing electronic pop with verve, soul, humour, lashings of fresh
hooks, furiously forward looking production & perfect songwriting.
If
Psapp
were from Portland, Oregon then I think they'd maybe sound a little
more like this. It's all in the minimalist approach
I think. The songs are centered around clicks, pulses, skittering
percussion, schizo bass bloops, manic synth stabs, all the while the
twin pronged, street-smart birdsong vocals twist breathlessly around
this free, magical music with gleeful abandon. It seems to take it's
cue from fem fronted Scando-Indie pop but these two hugely talented
ladies shape all the tunes into something really individual &
ultimately precious. I think we may have found our album of the week
folks! CD/G/Fold LP
What the label says:
For several years, The Blow have been hard at work developing an essential pop music formula, fashioned, as the best popular music is, with the function of getting under the skin of the people. What that music does once it gets there is what makes The Blow worth thinking about. Fascinated with the physics of pop construction, The Blow makes music that holds a weightless gravity. Their songs are light enough to sail easily through the air, landing simultaneously on the turntable of a London DJ, in your Mom's car stereo, and in the iPod of a middle schooler in study hall. However, they are somehow heavy enough to stick around, laying in your mind long after long after their new album, Paper Television, is over.
The Blow is Jona Bechtolt and Khaela Maricich. The two have been working together as The Blow since 2004 when they recorded a limited edition EP called "Poor Aim: Love Songs". It quickly became clear that the results of their combined forces flexed with a muscle that had a range far beyond the limited edition market. United by a shared affection for the sparkling production styles of mainstream radio, and both raised with deep roots in the DIY scenes of the Pacific Northwest, the duo makes fractured pop chart toppers to seduce all manner of hearts out of their cases, onto the floor. Jona's percussive savvy bumps and trips under Khaela's intimate, insistent vocals.
No-wave and glitch-hop, club anthems and doo-wop, all party together in the architecture created by The Blow's sound. Imagine a see-thru space station, floating in the dark, culling out via radio the most delicious flavors of planet earth's pop music production (the Pharells, the Phil Spectors, the Quincy Joneses). In the hovering structure of Paper Television, these sounds bounce around and mingle, try new moves and brave courageous hairstyles, ultimately getting infused (knocked up) with The Blow's vital lyrical content. Packed softly into hearty and buoyant vessels of songs, the words and beats are sent back out into the unknown, a transmission from the humans, for the humans, intended to spell out clearly in the night sky to all who come across them: "H-E-L-L-O! YOU ARE NOT ALONE: WE ARE HERE, AND WE ARE LISTENING."
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