Blonde Redhead
Here Sometimes

4
...according to our Phil on 26 August 2010.

Oooh. Blonde Redhead are back. To say I used to be obsessed is probably an understatement. Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons still does it for me every time I hear it. Man I love that album! They've got more polished over the years and some of the early fuzzyness and guitar mess has been replaced with a more poppy sombre tone. Here Sometimes is the first track from forthcoming opus 'Penny Sparkle'. It's a stripped back tune with it mainly consisting of a weird electronic beat, Kazu's delicate breathy vocals and some synthy business and that's pretty much it. It's a slow tune which builds up into a slightly busier slow tune. Certainly sounds better on 2nd listen but it's not awe inspiring. It sounds like some 80's synthpop band that's escaping me now. Bugger.... The flipside is a remix of of 'Love or Prison' by Kastellet which is a downbeat sombre sounding tune which I vastly prefer to the A side. It's stripped back again not much going on in there but what is in there is proper wrist slashy and mardy. Regular readers will know how I like to keep it mardy. Oh and it's on super thick heavy vinyl. Nice!

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What their label says...

Blonde Redhead return this Autumn with
the release of Penny Sparkle, the sublime
new album from the fêted New York trio.
The first material released from the album
is this 12” feat the opening track ‘Here
Sometimes’, plus a Kastellet rmx of ‘Love
Or Prison’

Released on September 13th, Penny Sparkle
– the band’s third for 4AD -
marks another sonic twist in their
already adventurous canon.
It was made over the last year with the band
journeying between
New York and Stockholm to work
with production duo Van Rivers and
The Subliminal Kid (Fever Ray, Glasser) with
additional production work undertaken with
Drew Brown (Beck, Charlotte Gainsbourg,
Radiohead). As with their previous album, 23,
Alan Moulder (Depeche Mode,
My Bloody Valentine, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) was
enlisted to mix it.

TRACKLISTING:

1. Here Sometimes
2. Love Or Prison (Kastellet Mix)