expect delay
Having released the first taste of their fourth album back in September, I had hoped that Russian shoegazers Blankenberge would ring in the new year with more details of when and what to expect of the follow-up to 2021’s glorious Everything. Today, they deigned to give us a second preview of that record with the […]
A lot has happened since Saint Petersburg’s Blankenberge released their 2021 album Everything – Russia invaded Ukraine, the band relocated to somewhere/anywhere else (their last publicly announced whereabouts was Serbia), and I fell in love with their music. Not necessarily in that order. But given the extenuating circumstances, it’s understandable that it took the band […]
Of all the new musical discoveries I’ve made this year, one that has remained in heavy rotation is St. Petersburg’s Blankenberge, whom I tried to properly celebrate back in June. They actually weren’t entirely new to me as their 2017 debut Radiogaze was brought to my attention by some genre year-end lists. As I recall, […]
I hope I haven’t violated any kind of embargoes in buying copies of Blankenberge’s last two albums – Everything and More – on the May edition of Bandcamp Friday, but I think I’m okay. I’m pretty sure they shipped from Portland. And come on, the Russian outfit’s soaring shoegaze kind of transcends borders or nationality. […]
