Bay Area–based band Bliss Abyss share red disgusting, the latest single from their forthcoming album. The band’s take on shoegaze easily collides with post punk sensibilities or perhaps the other way around on this particular track. Genre labels aside, the song carries a distinctly nineties spirit at its core and strikes many of the right chords.
It’s the kind of familiarity that makes the song immediately accessible. At the same time, its appeal goes beyond nostalgia since the track seems to be carrying a philosophical edge that feels both grounded in everyday life and quietly reflective, like something current yet timeless.
On the song the band's singer and guitarist Peter Wallner says: "Red Disgusting is a breakup song about narrative control, emotional vandalism, and watching charm curdle into cruelty. It's watching a person rewrite reality to protect their own fragile self image, and getting glimpses of these grotesque tendencies. It’s being repulsed by someone you are still addicted to and the horror of watching them smiling while they actively destroy you.
And ultimately it's about refusing to be a part of someone else's fiction."
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