Mmm. I love blue cheese. I mean it. I put that shit on EVERY. THING. Even stuff that isn’t edible (it’s smeared all over my kneecaps as we speak… don’t question my reasoning). Those stinky, moldy little curds are just such a perfect combo of smooth/fatty/creamy and sharp/tart/gnarly that I just can’t resist them, no matter how hard I try. And hey, now that I think about it, I feel pretty much EXACTLY the same way about good psych-pop songs! I slather those things everywhere… like blue cheese spread on a blue cheese-stuffed burger made from 100% blue cheese-fed cows!
Which is both awesome and convenient, because now I’m all tee’d up to tell you guys about New Zealand bedroom-psych whiz Kane Strang and the new album that he’s releasing on February 26 via the Ba Da Bing! label. Just let me lick the blue cheese off of my fingers first… Okay. Here we go:
Following a demo collection called A Pebble and a Paper Crane, which he apparently recorded while hanging out in a “WWII bomb shelter in Germany,” Strang’s first proper album, titled Blue Cheese of course, was conceived under decidedly less-horrific circumstances. He wrote the bulk of this badboy in his hometown of Dunedin, New Zealand while spending two months “housesitting for his parents,” during which he presumably spent a lot of time feeling isolated, watching lots of HGTV, and mindlessly eating copious amounts of free and delicious blue cheese from their bright clean fridge (frankly, I don’t know how he could manage to sing and play guitar with all that cheese in his throat and caking his fingers, but I guess true artists always find a way).
And that unique combination of chill, lonely, well-fed, dairy-coma vibes definitely shines through on the record, particularly on “Things Are Never Simple,” which Strang unveiled today and we have the pleasure of premiering. And even though the title suggests otherwise, it’s actually gonna be simple as HELL for you to stream the tangy new tune. All you have to do is navigate yourself down below, click a button, and you can listen to that shit all day. Perhaps while you peruse the tracklisting and pre-order Blue Cheese on CD or LP from Ba Da Bing? Or, maybe while you prepare and devour an entire pizza using thick slabs of blue cheese instead of mozzarella. Up to you, really.
Blue Cheese tracklisting:
01. The Web
02. Things Are Never Simple
03. Full Moon, Hungry Sun
04. Run Rings
05. What’s Wrong?
06. The Canyon Her River Carved
07. It’s Fine
08. You Think
09. She’s Appealing
10. Never Kissed A Blonde
11. Scarlet King Magnolia
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