Blessed – “Feel” (Stereogum Premiere)

Blessed – “Feel” (Stereogum Premiere)

Vancouver quartet Blessed have a self-titled EP coming next month, and “Feel” portends good things for it. The song is a disjointed multi-part adventure, post-punk blown out to a prog-rock scope. Each hard-hitting, rhythmically heavy segment is topped off by jagged guitar lines and, as the band explains, some stabs at heartfelt communication:

We’ve always been a music first group of people, which is something I made the conscious decision to try and change when we formed this band. None of us are older than 25, and grew up with a lot of tongue in cheek, don’t directly speak what’s fully on your mind kinds of bands influencing us in the formative years. So I feel like I’m in this crossroads of accepting I don’t have to be snarky or witty about a subject, and can be forthright. I’ve always preferred cryptic lyrics and letting people take their own opinion from a song, But with “Feel” I was just wrestling with the idea of being honest in lyrics, and not trying to cover things in a shade of sarcasm.

Listen below along with the Purity Ring-endorsed “Waving Hand.”

Check out Blessed on tour:

04/29 Vancouver, BC @ 333
05/11 Revelstoke, British Columbia @ The Drop
05/12 Calgary, Alberta @ Broken City
05/13 Edmonton, Alberta @ Clints Haus
05/14 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan @ Amigo’s
05/19 Winnipeg, Manitoba @ Sad Boys Club
05/20 Thunder Bay, Ontario @ The Apollo
05/21 Saulte Ste Marie, Ontario @ The New American
05/22 Windsor, Ontario @ Phog Lounge
05/23 London, Ontario @ East Side Bar
05/24 Brampton, Ontario
05/25 Geulph, Ontario @ DSTRCT
05/26 Hamilton, Ontario @ This Ain’t Hollywood
05/27 Toronto, Ontario @ The Central
05/28 Montreal, Quebec @ Poisson Noire
05/29 Fredericton, New Brunswick @ Charlotte Arts Center
05/31 Saint John, New Brunswick @ Callahan’s Pub
06/01 Moncton, New Brunswick
06/02 Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Sportsman’s
06/03 Halifax, Nova Scotia @ Gus’s Pub
06/04 Montreal, Quebec
06/07 Peterborough, Ontario @ The Spill
06/08 Kingston, Ontario @ The Artel
06/09 Ottawa, Ontario
06/10 Toronto, Ontario
06/11 Sudbury, Ontario @ The Asylum
06/13 Winnipeg, Ontario @ The Handsome Daughter
06/14 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan @ Barf House
06/16 Lethbridge, Alberta
06/17 Calgary, Alberta
06/18 Edmonton, Alberta @ The Alley
06/19 Vernon, BC
06/25 Victoria, BC

The Blessed EP is out 5/20.

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