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Blusom
Go Slowly All the Way Round the Outside
Second Nature CD
Blusom's calm release secretes feelings of seclusion and remoteness. The songs, like darkened clouds blanketing a chilly autumn evening, ebb slowly and unhurried. Resonating bass thumps, vibrant sounding acoustic strums and plucks, and cozy computer generated beats share the same space with cold chiming bells, piercing guitar distortions, sparse electronic beeps and clacks, and detached lyrics: "Go on without me. I am self-absorbed and shitty."*
Go Slowly All the Way Round the Outside was not created with the intention of more than a handful of friends to hear. Two Denver-area musicians, Jme White (Acrobat Down) and Mike Behrenhausen (Juhl and Maraca Five-O), recorded most of the songs sometime in 2001 by White in his Thin Air Studio in Denver, and then dubbed copies for friends. Eventually a tape landed in the lap of Second-Nature, and liking it so much they released Blusom's debut for mass consumption. Good move.
Throughout Blusom's debut they blend cool elements from Modest Mouse (think The Moon & Antarctica), Joan of Arc (the vocals even remind me of Tim Kinsella's), and some Radiohead, while creating an original sound that is both good and comforting despite its overall feeling of isolation and solitude.
Experimental bedroom sounds with a professional studio touch; Go Slowly pulsates, bleeps, and hums around acoustic strings and strong vocals. The duo is capable of snaring brittle, cold numbness with balmy, organic warmth, resulting in producing an outpouring of lo-fi acoustic splendor. Blusom's album is the ideal release to listen to when you are alone, distant, and wanting to escape human contact.
by Fake Train
*Taken from the song "On Glass"
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