Wrapped In Plastic (Saint Marie) is an album by Blindness for those who enjoy their music on the punk and ambient side, a nice mixture of both. Imagine a band like Sleater-Kinney jamming with The Pretenders or early Radiohead and you have a slight feel for what this group are trying to come up with here, powerful riffs with a songwriting quality coming from musicians confident in their capabilities to create some decent tracks.
A part of me wishes the production would be clearer and more crisp but the distorted qualities and tendency for things to be pushed “in the red” help keep this at a level that I’m certain is meant to be, completely in your face with little chance of being able to breathe. Vocalist Beth Rettig could easily adapt these songs into something a bit calmer (I’m sure any demos would reveal something unique) but the way they are performed here put them literally on the edge, ready to fall off at any given time before you (the listener) are there to grasp onto antyhing you can reach for. Bassist Kendra Frost and guitarist Debbie Smith anchor things precisely. In fact, if Smith’s name is familiar, she used to be the guitarist for 90’s band Curve (of “Coast Is Clear” fame) so if you liked what she had done with Echobelly and Snowpony. you will definitely enjoy her here in a new home. There is definitely that early to mid-90’s feel to what Blindness do but that style of rock is very much relevant today, as if it ever left. Songwriting is a key factor so if you add attention to musicianship, you will apprecate what Wrapped In Plastic offers.
(Wrapped In Plastic is available from Amazon.)
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