Bloodhype, the recording project of Maureen Neer from Chicago, makes a sparse brand of electro pop that’s as comfortable sliding along in placid rhythm as it is rising into crescendos. As such, the music takes on a strangely affirming quality, though one which allows sadness to seep into its cracks. Think that wistful sense of wonder common to antecedent or aftermath, a newfound appreciation for how things are or were, a quiet mourning for what we know and knew. Or, as the bio puts it: “Bloodhype is dancing alone at 3am. The smell of grass tousled by early spring gusts. The sound of small animals stirring after a thunderstorm.”
With full-length album High From Las Vegas coming at the end of the month on Fox Food Records, we get the privilege of sharing brand new single, ‘Not Too Good’, to ramp up the anticipation. The song has an intricate spirit, flickering to life from small elements and beats and clicking into some higher function, eventually rising into a complex, layered soundscape. Neer’s voice acts as the gathering force for this process, the gravity that corrals the various components and spins them into one cohesive whole, a swirling, miasmic body that you too will be drawn into, before the track dissipates back into its competent parts, fading into the nothing from which it came.
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High From Las Vegas is set for release on the 29th June via Fox Food Records and you can pre-order it now via Bandcamp.
