Recording: Your 33 Black Angels

Artist: Your 33 Black Angels

Songs: Endless Gaze + Britpop Reveries

Recorded at The Baby G, May 27, 2019.

Your 33 Black Angels - Endless Gaze

Your 33 Black Angels - Britpop Reveries

Well, a bit of a Monday night treat to go check-in with some once-familiar faces. Some groups write, in essence, one song and spend their careers exploring repeated variations on it. Your 33 Black Angels is not one of those bands — always adapting and mutating, Y33BA have long been one step ahead of the curve in reclaiming edge-of-cheeze sounds from the past and repurposing them for the cause of proper rock'n'roll. (Current example: synth horns.) That gave this set a bit of a plastic groove feeling — glam rock for a world where Mariah Carey has existed. Teasing multiple generations of glammy influences, "Britpop Reveries" takes a bit of the Bowie-ish nostalgia of "Drive-In Saturday" or "All The Young Dudes", but looking back to the 90's. Never a "greatest hits" kind of band, most of the material came from this year's Eternities I.