Blouse make it to Berlin for their first show at Comet Club and hopefully their positive retro indie-pop will help signal the end of this interminable cold. They’re an addictive listen these kids, basslines and keyboards straight out of The Cure/New Order arsenal, synths washing the whole thing warm and even a gentle blast or two of MBV space-guitar as on Videotapes which you can hear below.
Support is from Berlin’s Remi Letournelle, or Deoda Byrnes if you prefer, also a member of Fenster, this man keeps busy. Here’s Minuit Minuit Minuit which should warm up the crowd nicely for Blouse:
Blouse is based out of a warehouse in Portland, Oregon. The project started in the summer of 2010, after Los Angeles native Charlie Hilton met Patrick Adams in art school. They began spending nights at the warehouse recording with Jacob Portrait. After posting two demo tracks to Bandcamp, the group was picked up by Captured Tracks out of Brooklyn, NY. The first 7″ single Into Black was released March of 2011 by Captured Tracks. Sub Pop Records released their second single Shadow two months later. The full-length record was released on Captured Tracks November 2011.
Here’s said single Into Black and Videotapes below that:
