Blue Lilies, by Blue Dust Archive

Blue Lilies

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1.	Blue Eternity 03:06	buy track
2.	The Moon & Euphoria 03:44	buy track
3.	Untitled 02:24	buy track
4.	09.19 03:20	buy track
5.	Last April 03:40	buy track
6.	Beauty Sleep 03:35	buy track
7.	Blue Lilies 02:58	buy track
8.	Creature 03:58	buy track
9.	Slave To The Motion 03:12	buy track
10.	Anum 03:39	buy track

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At once expansive, exhaustive and emotionally algebraic, Blue Dust Archive’s Blue Lilies emerges as a sophisticatedly engineered soundboard, providing home to an exceedingly complex musical ecosystem. It’s one borne of an admiration of the “inscrutable and natural genius of life” that Blue Dust Archive, AKA Samuel Christopher, describes as a ‘’symphonic, art-pop epic with spiritual and mystical overtones”.

The New York City based Christopher says that with Blue Lilies, the core of its delivery hinged on the record’s sound design: its use of space, texture, and environmental interplay.

Christopher’s use of these elements is erudite. In ‘Blue Eternity’, mellifluous vocal sequences are plastered on top of a bell pattern that twists into an unconventional syncopation. The lyrics, however indiscernible, meet percussive samples snapping milliseconds in and out of step. Contorting and unfurling walls of gargantuan, romanesque sounding spaces come to develop new relationships with themselves throughout the record over and over again.

The record comes four years into Christopher’s career as Blue Dust Archive. What made these different from past efforts, he guesses, was a desire to assert himself and create work that would align with what he wryly describes as the most interesting contemporary push in music at the moment: “that of the sublime experimental pop auteur angel alien freak.”

“But maybe there’s a better way to put that?”

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released July 30, 2021

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Blue Dust Archive Brooklyn, New York

samjameschris@gmail.com

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