The Soundtrack to Your Dreams
Blood and Glass are a five-piece band from Montreal. Their debut album is Museum With No Walls, a dark record that shows us what dreams sound like. To call it dream-like would be just scratching the surface; Blood and Glass create atmospheres with their ambient and inky production that give the listener lots of space to get lost in.
The opener, “Once Upon a Time,” is the essential theme to any scary children’s story. It goes along rather creepily: “One day, the girl with shredded eyes spotted him drawing pictures of another world,” the voice of a young girl says. The track ends uneasily, setting the mood for the rest of the tracks: “She tore out her paper heart, and beneath the pinned-up moon, they learned to play with fire”.
Some tracks sound theatrical, as if pulled directly from some mystery/thriller flick. The band creates songs that have a distinct color palette: shades of black and grey, purples, and ethereal blues. Tracks like “Photograph” and “Broken Arrow – Act III” make you uneasy – there’s even audio of a saw grinding away at some piece of wood (is it wood?) towards the end of that third act.
Lisa and Logan Moore’s vocals push this record forward. It’s what keeps the tracks afloat, preventing them from disappearing into the misty voids so common from song to song. Check “Bad Dreams” and “Turning Turning” – you’ll hear those hollow, mysterious spaces they create, paired with the muffled voices, whispering it seems, through some radio receiver.
It seems appropriate that Moore’s vocals sound so close to us– it’s as if she’s whispering her tunes in our ears (check “Inferno”, especially). At it’s strangest, the album is a series of lullabies, being sung to us by the night-goddess that is Blood and Glass.
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