Seashells, by Blanche Blanche Blanche

Seashells

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1.	Gangstalker 01:47	buy track
2.	Return of the Simple Child 02:20	buy track
3.	Ask If You Can Ask 01:24	buy track
4.	Killing an Angel 01:24	buy track
5.	My Flag 02:28	buy track
6.	Taking Umbrage 01:35	buy track
7.	Rise Above 01:08	buy track
8.	Lovin' So 02:10	buy track
9.	Only for Men 01:18	buy track
10.	Fem'nin Woman 01:20	buy track
11.	the Bitch Inside 01:21	buy track
12.	I Prayed for Rain to Fall 01:42	buy track
13.	Seashells 01:46	buy track
14.	2 Jasons 01:54	buy track
15.	In the Heat of the Moment 01:27	buy track
16.	Camp David 02:10	buy track
17.	Virgin Rights 01:45	buy track
18.	Before My Circle 01:34	buy track
19.	Blocked and Reported 01:13	buy track
20.	Everyone's Okay 01:59	buy track
21.	Bought for Free 01:26	buy track
22.	Built to Last 01:54	buy track
23.	Heart Made of Rust 01:35	buy track

about

"It’s a bit of a cliché in experimental music circles to compliment music for being confusing (as when people refer to a record as a “head-scratcher”), but this almost always designates a very specific kind of aesthetic confusion: an opaqueness of process combined with a dearth of legible expressivity. I eagerly listen to a lot of music with those qualities, but I’m rarely actually confused by it. I find Seashells, on the other hand, to be genuinely pretty confusing. The form and instrumentation are clear enough – poppy songs with keyboards and vocals. But the electric piano is often dashing through so many thick chords that they barely sound melodic, and it’s difficult to tell whether the singer is blurting out insular jokes or divulging slices of hard-won poetic wisdom.

And that’s what’s head-scratching about Seashells: the tone is really hard to read. It’s both embarrassingly earnest and defensively coy. The social commentary is both spot-on and murky, perhaps a bit dodgy at moments. The production sounds both fussily overcooked and rushed, unfinished. That’s all to say: it’s terrific. I love this record. I find its contradictions rejuvenating. And, at a basic level, I’m simply delighted by what I hear as its perverse and slightly juvenile joyfulness, which is the least confusing part of it; joy is always perverse and slightly (or more than slightly) juvenile."
- Steven Zultanski

Their first release in over six years, "Seashells" is the 10th full-length record by Blanche Blanche Blanche (Zach Phillips and Sarah Smith). As "Blue" Gene Tyranny once wrote to BBB, "I really, really have been enjoying your albums. To me they are a pure modern bop style, but don't let me characterize your writing in any way. They are just quite wonderful. The ever-evolving disjunctive bop stimulates in my mind thoughts of hearing Lambert Hendrix and Ross with a tiny bit of disjunctive Zappa. It is truly thrilling music and I am very privileged to hear it."

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released January 1, 2021

written & recorded to Tascam 424 in short sessions by Sarah Smith & Zach Phillips 2017-2019 in Brooklyn NY
cover painting and all melodies by Sarah
Ryan Power: guitar on "Before My Circle" + mastering

published by reading group in 2020, rg19, readinggroup.co/rg19.html

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