This is why I love writing for The Vinyl District. The singer of San Francisco band Blisses B sends me an email and asks if I would check out his band’s sophomore release. Although I have never heard of these guys, it’s a sincere email that’s personalized so I take a listen. It’s a pleasant surprise and now I am hooked.
Having heard a lot of great bands in San Francisco, I have to say this is by far one of the finest. These guys makes brilliant unorthodox “pop” music ( I use that term pop VERY loosely) that is musically complex, remarkably catchy and falling somewhere between Modest Mouse and the legendary Tom Waits. Intrigued yet?
Blisses-B has just released their sophomore effort Thirty Days, Sixty Years. The quartet recorded, produced, and engineered the entire record themselves. The band describes their latest record:
“Thirty Days, Sixty Years” explores the mathematical parameters that define our lives — weekends, vacations, adolescence, adulthood, the reality of how much time we have left on this earth — and the personal equations that result from the many caveats that can extend and shorten most of these time frames. Are we spending our time wisely, with the right people, and in the right place? What are we giving back?”
Check out the video for “Regal Goodbyes” and prepare to play it over and over again.
The fingerprints on Thirty Days, Sixty Years belong only to Blisses B. The album was tracked, mixed, and mastered entirely by bassist Nick Testa. Using electric and acoustic mandolins, piano, leslie speakers and banjo, Ben Keegan (guitar, mandolin, keyboard, vocals), Noah Libby (vocals, guitar, banjo, mandolin), Matt Mcbride (drums, percussion), and Testa recorded Thirty Days, Sixty Years at Stout Studios in Oakland, Cal., on a 2-inch Studer Tape Machine. Overdubs and vocals were added at Devil Tail Studios in San Francisco.
As an additional bonus, Blisses-B released a brilliant remix of their song “Regal Goodbyes” and I have been listening to it non-stop for days. I suggest you download it below then go see the band play live at Cafe Du Nord on October 14. I will be there for sure.
The band is gathering funds to release their latest effort on vinyl, so let’s help them out and buy something from them as I would really like to hear this music on wax.
What do you think of Blisses-B? Is Regal Goodbyes in your playlist now? Please share your thoughts in the comment section below.
