“We tried not to overthink what was happening or spend too much time hyper-focused on any one thing. “We tried to go into it without many preconceived notions,” Fox recalls. Their initial explorations resulted in their mini-album, January for Melt, they aimed for something more minimal and improvised. Fox’s band had recorded at Hills’ Earthtone studio a number of times they hit it off and made the decision to explore making music together. The two members of Blank Gloss met through their shared involvement in punk and experimental music.
A lush dream of an album, it’s a remarkable index of the gilded eternities that you can magic from a reduced tonal palette: glistening guitars, ruminative piano, warps and weaves of subtle drone and hum. With Melt, Blank Gloss make a heavy contribution to Kompakt’s ongoing explorations of the hundreds of hues of Pop Ambience. Attentive listeners will recall their lovely contribution to Kompakt’s Pop Ambient 2021, “Of A Vessel”, which reappears here others might know their 2020 mini-album, January, released on the stylish Miami label Night Young. Melt is the debut full-length album by Blank Gloss, the Sacramento duo of Patrick Hills and Morgan Fox.
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