Every year, in our Best of NYC Emerging Artists Poll we get at least one band (picked by one of our jurors) that is so obscure it doesn’t even have music online – not to mention a Facebook profile. In the latest 2012 edition, this band was Blanche Blanche Blanche. Although Google didn’t share much info about them, between 2010 and 2013 they had already released not two but seven full length records, recorded – of course – on the very retro multitrack cassette format.
If you were to imagine how this band’s music sounded from they way they describe it, you probably wouldn’t even give them a shot: "For Breaking Mirrors we wrote material designed to be played in unison by a rock instrumentation against a vocal countermelody. The bassist & guitarists were provided with melodies in the form of series of named eighth notes ( 3F 4E 2A 2C, begins "Fisted" ) but were free to determine their movement between octave registers."
But words don’t matter too much, and the preview single "I Just Wanna Know" (streaming below) is a super fun, super fast and super quick lo-fi pop gem featuring nasal vocals, odd tempos and sudden changes reminiscent of the Pixies. Some kind of frantic toy drums dictate a neckbreaking tempo, followed faithfully by super effected guitars, while a series of well placed noises contribute to an overall atmosphere of tightly organized chaos. We dig! – Photo by Christina Schneider
We added this song to The Deli’s playlist of Best songs by emerging NYC artists – check it out!