Restless Spheres, by Blue States

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1.	Alight Here 03:59	buy track
2.	Vision Trail 05:23	buy track
3.	D-Day 04:25	buy track
4.	Restless Spheres 03:52	buy track
5.	Noodle 03:35	buy track
6.	Statues 03:58	buy track
7.	Beyond The White Light 04:11	buy track
8.	Fight The Dying Day 03:31	buy track
9.	Protect Me Everywhere 03:32	buy track
10.	Cable Ties 04:43	buy track
11.	Hiatus 03:42	buy track

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Blue States releases his long awaited fifth album 'Restless Spheres' on 16 September via Memphis Industries.

It's been nine years since we last heard from Blue States, the moniker for the musical outlet of Andrew Dragazis. Recorded, produced and, for the most part, played by Dragazis at his Lightwell studios in Stoke Newington, London, Restless Spheres doffs its cap to the soundtracks of Budd and Morricone, to 60s Greek bands such as The Forminx, to German electronic pioneers Dieter Moebius and Michael Rother and to American minimalist composers Steve Reich and Phillip Glass.

Restless Spheres' themes, for the most part, focus on the everyday, the finding of beauty in the mundane. Album opener Alright Here was written on a night bus ride through blinding city lights and features Eos on vocals and violin. Eos again contributes to D-Day, a song about the seemingly important days in our lives that are momentous to us and us alone. First single Statues introduces the beautifully crystalline vocals of Stockholm's Mayasa, a song about removing self-imposed barriers and ‘closing the gaps between your head and your heart’. Beyond The White Light, featuring the vocals of psychedelic adventurer Toby Jenkins a.k.a. The Squire of Somerton, is a Sci-Fi concept song telling the tale of a worker in a future world who manages to escape “beyond the white light” from the machines that enslave him. Title track, the King Lear referencing Restless Spheres, again features Mayasa and reflects on Dragazis becoming a father against the backdrop of disturbing local and world events. Dragazis also refers to his nine-year hiatus, on ‘Hiatus’ naturally, and the penultimate track ‘Cable Ties’, a song about self-doubt in the studio.

Blue States then, return, with an album that finds silver screen scale and grandeur in the hopes, fears and doubts of everyday life.

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