Green/Blue “Offering”

sfilzen — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 18:04:18 +0000

Green/Blue “Offering” 2022. Hozac Records. Jangling noise pop from the prolific Jim Blaha (The Blind Shake, Shadow in the Cracks, Jim and the French Vanilla). Offering is Green/Blue’s second LP (their third, Paper Thin came out in June 2022, while their s/t debut came out in early 2020). Dense and rocking, Offering calls to mind a mix of early 90’s Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine, but with more of a pop sensibility, like you can actually dance to a lot of it. My top tracks include “Disregard,” “Same Waste of Time” (frantic, fun, heavily layered) and the title track “Offering” (even more frantic, slightly atonal giving it an exotic flavor). Green/Blue are from Minneapolis and Jim Blaha has played Milwaukee with some of his other projects in the past; hoping they’ll make their way east again soon.

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Green/Blue “Green/Blue”

sfilzen — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 22:47:03 +0000

Green/Blue “Green/Blue” 2020. Slovenly Recordings. The first release from noisy Minneapolis garage rockers Green/Blue and the new(ish) project by Jim Blaha of The Blind Shake, Shadow in the Cracks (both of those with his brother, Mike Blaha) and Jim and the French Vanilla. The Blaha bros are busy! I adore The Blind Shake and Shadow in the Cracks (and they put on wildly great shows) so I’m not sure what took me so long to put Green/Blue on the turntable; I was inspired today when I listened to a Spotify mixtape (put out for Dirtnap Record Patreons) that included the Green/Blue track “Police Street.” The rest of the record is just as great! It is on the lo-fi side, dark and driving. Jim Blaha is responsible for all the instruments, which he “recorded on the thinnest of tape in the basement studio of [his] Minneapolis home” (from Slovenly Recordings’ website) and most of the vocals; additional vocals are provided by Annie Sparrows (from The Soviettes). Jim is also a collage artist and created all of the record’s artwork. According to Slovenly, Green/Blue has evolved from basically a solo project to a four-piece and now includes Danny Henry (also from The Soviettes) on drums and Video Takahashi (from Birthday Suits) on bass. Jim sings and plays guitar. Besides “Police Street,” my top tracks include the opener “At a Loss,” the wild “No Place to Go” which has Blaha and Sparrows sharing desperate vocals, the lo-fi rocker “Holiday Kicks” and “Return.” Green/Blue just released their new record Offering a couple of days ago – we need to get a hold of it soon (unless we already did the preorder, I honestly can’t keep up with our record collection).

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