Lyrics / Music: Blarg
Recording / Mixing: Blarg
Mastering: Marco Sebastian Christ
Artwork: Theo Steiner
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Was geht ab?
“The Beaches Tapes”, “The Temples Tapes” and “The Three Tapes” are the titles of Blarg’s first three albums, which all are presented right here. They have been produced in 2017, within just one year. Because of this temporal and musical closeness why not calling them a loose trilogy?
What made this extraordinary output? Creative hurry as a need! At this time Blarg brim with song ideas, which scream for realisation. Just with a high work pace for the productions as a rule of game, they can cope with all his ideas in equal measure to save the tension between them.
Blarg do not slow up with “cutting”. Their diamonds stay rough. And therefore their often still like potential hits well arranged songs contain the immediate, the spontaneous and the wild of the recording sessions: delicious rock’n roll ingredients like easy improvisations, free performed texts, unpolished first take guitars, digital hiss, shreds of words or provoking noise escapades. Creative hurry as means of work!
This ambivalence also occurs in the lyrics. In German and English Blarg touch on stories, which often stay mysterious, appear like being fragmentarily or improvisationally performed or just can be adumbrated sunken in rich sound. Shoegaze! They like to play with irony und irritates with a mix of possibly autobiographical or fictitious content. But then fully pop star again Blarg put on a show, when in their texts they slips into rolls, representing the guy, who knows what’s going on, or the one, who is far too rich to be interested in anything.
Blarg do not hide their inspiration. On their albums they hint on artists like The Beach Boys, Suicide, Velvet Underground or Stooges. And also japanese psych rock bands like Les Rallizes Denudes, White Heaven or The Stars have a strong influence on them. But they never wears out in just emulating this music. Blarg is creating a very own sound: risky, experimental, new. And with their music they draw a flashy bow from almost schlager-like Beat Music, over Broken Dilletante Lofi Rock up to Drone Guitar Noise. Strangely intimate. Unadapted and mainstream.
“Beaches” is Blarg’s first album. Psych-Rock was the inspiration, particularly japanese artists like Yura Yura Teikoku, You Ishihara or the Stars. Hard to believe but true: Here you find schlager-like songs (Tired) next to noise orgies (Rich).
Lyrics / Music: Blarg
Recording / Mixing: Blarg
Mastering: Marco Sebastian Christ
Artwork: Theo Steiner
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In contrast to the other two albums “The Temples Tapes” impresses with its reduced instrumentation consisting just of vocals, rough acoustic guitars and percussion. You may think of Velvet Underground or (like I do) of Beck Hansen and his lofi blues and singer-songwriter songs from the early 90ies.
Lyrics / Music: Blarg
Recording / Mixing:Blarg
Mastering: Marco Sebastian Christ
Artwork: Theo Steiner
Download and pay your price
(mp3, FLAC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, ALAC, WAV, AIFF)
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This album is licensed under a Creative Commons “Attribution – Non Commercial – No Derivatives” 4.0 International License.