(Indie, Electronic, Lo-Fi) The Blow - The Blow - 2013, MP3, 320 kbps

The Blow returns with eponymous album The Blow out November 18, 2013 on Kanine Records. Founding member Khaela Maricich partnered with Melissa Dyne to create an album that reflects their united love of pop music, bass, frequency, hooks and intimate lyrics. This is the long awaited new release since 2007s Paper Television (K Records). The Blow will start touring this fall in support of the release. From The Blow: The record collection on the shelves in our living room reflects some of the beacons that illuminated our way. Its stacked with art rock heroes, new wave romantics, r&b thumpers, and radio pop. (It might be said that we are fairly poor imitators, moving around in the dark and inventing weird new shapes.) A lot of the sounds that we used in the album are samples of acoustic instruments that we processed back into electronic elements. We produced this album ourselves in and around New York City, and we would travel around with our portable rig, sampling performances from friends and acquaintances, running our sounds through other peoples gear like taking it to an audio spa. What we didn t have we borrowed or found, what we didnt know how to do we learned. Making this album was an odyssey of experimentation. These songs trace the arc of our somersault into the unknown, holding hands, going backwards through the air, watching to see where we land.