BLAISE is my debut solo project branching out from playing in bands my whole life (the Infants, Hot To Rot) my music is a nostalgic hybrid of 90’s Alt rock, pop and a lil bit of surf guitar. It was finally born in deep isolation and now is finally unleashed to the world.

‘Two of Swords' is a devotional yet sarcastic ode to committing oneself to toxicity and the realisation that it’s time to break free. The B-Side track ‘Summer’ is the optimistic follow-on about finding new sparkly, healthy love under unusual circumstances.

Two Of Swords

Summer

Two of Swords

After racking up 10 plus years of experience in various different bands (Hot To Rot, The Infants) it was the pandemic that channeled Blaise’s creativity into producing electronic music. Multi-instrumentalist Blaise creates a textural soundscape for which to build upon with her pop melodies and guitar riffs. She decorates a familiar 80’s bass synth with chime like toy keyboards a sparkly and nostalgic sound now synonymous with Blaise’s work. Her catchy guitar riffs emerge like a snake darting through the playful yet forward moving drum beats. Her powerful and recognisable voice reveals its vulnerable side in Distract Me, the soft high notes uplifting and carrying you away to her fantasy world, blurring the lines between life and  a summer daydream. 
B-side Fuse continues with this textural palette but strips back and delivers an empowered and deeper state of mind. Images of Blaise standing atop a cliff as she bellows into the setting sun come to mind, while down below skeletons knock their knees together in a jangling of bones to the slightly disjointed yet pulsing rhythm. 

Adapting to the new pandemic landscape Distract Me is an appropriate title to describe trying to exist and continue to produce music through uncertain times. In Distract Me, Blaise sings of the tendency to use new feelings of love as a means to distract oneself from engaging in personal growth and follows up with B-side Fuse which shows the inevitable progress of having spent hours of time to reflect and no excuses not to heal. This is a subtle yet revealing glimpse into the success of the years of hard work she has put into her mental health.

FUSE

After racking up 10 plus years of experience in various different bands (Hot To Rot, The Infants) it was the pandemic that channeled Blaise’s creativity into producing electronic music. Multi-instrumentalist Blaise creates a textural soundscape for which to build upon with her pop melodies and guitar riffs. She decorates a familiar 80’s bass synth with chime like toy keyboards a sparkly and nostalgic sound now synonymous with Blaise’s work. Her catchy guitar riffs emerge like a snake darting through the playful yet forward moving drum beats. Her powerful and recognisable voice reveals its vulnerable side in Distract Me, the soft high notes uplifting and carrying you away to her fantasy world, blurring the lines between life and  a summer daydream. 
B-side Fuse continues with this textural palette but strips back and delivers an empowered and deeper state of mind. Images of Blaise standing atop a cliff as she bellows into the setting sun come to mind, while down below skeletons knock their knees together in a jangling of bones to the slightly disjointed yet pulsing rhythm. 

Adapting to the new pandemic landscape Distract Me is an appropriate title to describe trying to exist and continue to produce music through uncertain times. In Distract Me, Blaise sings of the tendency to use new feelings of love as a means to distract oneself from engaging in personal growth and follows up with B-side Fuse which shows the inevitable progress of having spent hours of time to reflect and no excuses not to heal. This is a subtle yet revealing glimpse into the success of the years of hard work she has put into her mental health.

Artwork by Don Gray

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