Considering that the Blow was Khaela Maricich's solo project before Jona Bechtolt joined and later departed to form YACHT, it's only fitting that Maricich is going the eponymous route on the first new Blow album in seven years-- she's always been the star around which her collaborators revolved. This time around it's Melissa Dyne providing the burps and gurgles, delivering a slice of rubbery laptop funk on "From the Future", the album's second single. Maricich navigates the track's low center of gravity with her typical wry delivery, casting day and night as door-to-door salesmen bent on sabotaging each other as much as winning your dollar: "Day is fake, and you know I'm right/ It shoots all that excessive light/ And just distracts us from the facts/ We're floating in a vast expanse of black."
Renato Pagnani is a writer based in Edmonton, AB. He has been contributing to Pitchfork since 2013 and his work has also appeared in publications such as The Edmonton Journal and The National Post. ... Read more
