The indie-pop duo Blonds is not to be confused with the Brooklyn-via-Oberlin electronic duo Blondes, though, truth be told, the nominal similarity is what led me to open the email they sent. West Palm, Florida’s Blonds are about to self-release their debut EP Dark Roots, and it will eventually make its way onto many a sync-agent/label A&R person’s desk: its strongest tracks are practically custom-tailored to fit the mold of the throwback hooky, boy/girl rom-com pop spread by Tennis, and the bittersweet glockenspieled escapism of Cults. (Like those bands’ principals, and perhaps not entirely coincidentally, Blonds are dating.) “Kites” lopes with a slow gait and samples of strings and makes its honeyed swing a cautious celebration of being “without a string”; “Treasure Coast” is more rousing and expansive in sound, wistful and sanguine in lyric (“so long, farewell, goodbye” and “anywhere, everything,” ascending repeatedly). This is decidedly the music of young people in love, exploring adulthood, and thus to be sidestepped by anyone who isn’t interested in such things and downloaded by anyone who is/interested in new songs to place in the movies.
Both tracks appear on Blonds forthcoming, self-released debut EP Dark Roots. It’ll be available as a free download on their Bandcamp. It’s a new project; for now, keep up at @BlondsTheBand.
We asked them to send over the tracklist to a mixtape of their favorite five songs by other artists, to serve as the ideal primer to Blonds. That’s here:
01 Bessie Smith – “Graveyard Dream Blues”
02 Gorillaz – “Tomorrow Comes Today”
03 Serge Gainsbourg – “Bonnie & Clyde”
04 Penny & The Quarters – “You And Me”
05 The Cinematic Orchestra – “All Things To All Men“
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I clicked this thread thinking it was about BlondEs.
So first we went from Weekend to The Weeknd. Now Blondes to Blonds.
Props for them tossen’ “Tomorrow Comes Today” in their mini-mixtape.
Couldn’t they have just been Burnettes? I mean it looks like it’s more similar to their actual hair colors.
Hopefully a bunch of people will buy Blondes self-titled next year thinking it’s actually this. More people need to hear Blondes.
I was about to say pretty much all those same things. Especially the bit about “tomorrow comes today” and the bit about how there have to be other possible band names out there besides just dropping and E out of a word.
I guess I could have just upvoted your comment actually..
am i the only one that gets all the downloads error’d from Stereogum? i like kite sooo much, and i would love it to be in my mp3 player, but it doesn’t work :/
What browser do you use?
Sounds good
I don’t get this. At all.
I listened, I feel like nothing happened.
Is anyone else tired of all this electronic music?
i really want this band to release a full length album :-(