Bleach the Sky – Wash Away
Boston, Massachusetts’ Bleach the Sky have been kicking around for the better part of a decade – an indie/alternative/shoegaze trio whose latest album, Wash Away, has been blaring through the buffaBLOG office speakers non-stop. Their newest musical endeavor is a foundational five-song EP, all of which have been meticulously crafted over the course of the last three years. Produced by Jay Maas, formerly of the raging band Defeater, and mastered by Kris Crummet, Wash Away blends the best parts of late ’90s alt rock, emo, and shoegaze into the band’s best (and best-representative) stuff yet. With influences ranging from Teenage Wrist, to Incubus, to Jimmy Eat World, Wash Away is truly the sum of all its various inspirations. “GIN,” the album’s opening track, is concise, blistering shoegaze. Perfectly noisy and concentrated, Bleach the Sky uses fuzzy guitars, an ethereal bass, and huge drums to back fittingly-crushing lyrics like, “Who’s to say[...]