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Russian shoegaze heroes Blankenberge will release their long-awaited fourth record Decisions, which I’ve personally been anxiously awaiting for a few years now. They’ve already telegraphed their plans for celebrating the release – they held a Bandcamp listening party last night and are releasing an official video for “New Rules”, which was the first preview track […]
Russian shoegaze masters Blankenberge have been teasing their fourth album since last September, but while the samples of the new record have been expectedly euphoric, they’ve been very light on details about the new album itself. Last weekend, they released their third preview of the new record along with very subtle visualizer, but again resisted […]
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. […]
