{"id":9710,"date":"2014-11-25T13:50:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T13:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=9710"},"modified":"2014-11-25T13:50:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T13:50:40","slug":"blisters-are-you-awake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2014\/11\/25\/blisters-are-you-awake\/","title":{"rendered":"Blisters \u2013 Are You Awake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2014\/11\/25\/blisters-are-you-awake\/blisters\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9711\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9711\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/blisters-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"blisters\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Are You Awake<\/i> is the first full length album from now infamously semi-on-hiatus and influential Winnipeg shoegazers Blisters.<!--more--> The album was recorded three years ago for a Montreal label that went belly up, so it was just released independently this year. Produced and mixed by Riley Hill in Winnipeg, the album\u2019s sound is dark and gloomy but is full of moments that are beautiful and uplifting, brought to you by goosebump inducing \u00a0guitar layering of Daniel Monkman and Skitty Popes and vocal harmonies \u00a0buried beneath halls of reverb. The collection of eight songs maintain clear influences from bands like My Bloody Valentine and Galaxie 500 (especially on \u201cAttic\u201d) giving the band a hazy and deep emotional sound. Lizzy Burt sings with Monkman on most of the songs, and her voice is the perfect complement. She brings the songs to a higher level of emotion and provides a human element to the woozy layers upon layers of guitar and effects. \u00a0Monkman\u2019s song writing takes the album to bright heights; his lyrics (when audible) are nostalgic and regretful. On the albums opener, they sing, \u201cCome along to the playground, They don&#8217;t play like they use to.\u201d The flow of the album is perfect as the songs blend interestingly and sweetly into one another. The attention to detail throughout is impressive and gives the album consistent playability. Only 40 of these albums exist on the planet and with album artwork reminiscent of the X-Files, <i>Are You Awake<\/i> feels as if it is from a different plain of existence. (Independent, <a href=\"blisters-areyouawake.bandcamp.com\" target=\"_blank\">blisters-areyouawake.bandcamp.com<\/a>) <strong>Gil Carroll<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are You Awake is the first full length album from now infamously semi-on-hiatus and influential Winnipeg shoegazers Blisters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[563],"class_list":["post-9710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}