Bloodhouse - Please Don’t Meet Me 7”

Was pretty pumped to see this land in my mailbox roughly a month or so ago. Yeah, it’s been that long…way too much shit going on right now, blah blah blah. Anyway, got hooked on Bloodhouse from a link to download their six song cassette from One Base On an Overthrow awhile back, although I’m not necessarily sure exactly on the specifics. The Halifax group play a delay heavy and fuzzed out sort of pop/punk mixture that I doubt I’ll ever get sick of hearing at this point. Bands want to tackle this sound? Be me guest. This here single on Caesar Cuts is the bands debut on any type of vinyl format, featuring two brief two minute rockers that do well in showing off what the band can do. The a-side of “Please Don’t Meet Me” is what would probably qualify as “heavy pop”, something that the band uses to describe their own sound. It gets going with the slow stomp of guitar and drums and continues to pound it out for two minutes interspersing here and there with some lovely guitar twang/squall that brings on the downer vibes a bit. On the b-side there is “Cool Intentions”, which lays into a subtle shifting and quite effective melody for its duration while surrounding it in plenty of rough distortion as well. These folks hit the nostalgia button kind of hard at times, but I believe it to be well worth the ride.

This comes from my own rip of the single, as I did it before they put it up for free download. Oh well. Give it a listen.

Bloodhouse – Please Don’t Meet Me [MP3]

This is currently available through Caesar Cuts or the band has put the two songs up for free download on their Bandcamp site.