Blessa :: "Pale"

A very promising act out of Sheffield, Blessa return with their second single, "Pale", still firmly lodged in the gauzy sonics that sound like a never-ending loop of the roller coaster scene in Fear. The band builds layers of reverberating guitars and winsome vocals before tipping toward a punctuating chorus, most memorably turning the word "hold" into a three syllable experience. It is love in reverse, memorialized and pretty from far away. The final movement, propulsive and seasick in the best of ways, focuses on the lyric, "it was impossibly easy for you," - which maybe it wasn't but this doesn't seem to matter here - all forgotten in the fires of an arrangement in full self-actualization mode.