HIGH VIS ‘BLENDING’ LP – CLOUDY ORANGE

Description:

LABEL: DAIS Records
UPDATED VINYL RELEASE DATE: 9/30/2022
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 2022
VARIANT: Cloudy Orange Vinyl LP

High Vis were formed in 2016 from the ashes of some of the UKs best hardcore bands. Gild-toothed frontman Graham Sayles anguished lyrics about life in working class Britain were familiar to fans of Tremors full-throttle thrash, but alongside his former bandmate Edward Ski Harper and veterans of Dirty Money, DiE and The Smear, High Vis sought to transform that energy and intensity into something entirely new.

Like scene-mates Chubby and the Gang did by pulling in unlikely source material from classic doo-wop or Micromoon have by combining everything from psychedelia and metal into their high potency mix, High Vis 2019 debut album, No Sense No Feeling showed the band were never going to be constrained by any sense of genre rules or regulations. Its claustrophobic rattle bore traces of Joy Division, Bauhaus, Crisis, The Cure and Gang Of Four lurking in the shadows. 2020s synth-driven EP, Society Exists, was further evidence of the bands restless creative MO.

High Vis second album Blending sees them open their view finder wider than ever before. Alongside longstanding favourites such as Fugazi and Echo and The Bunnymen; Ride and even Flock Of Seagulls were shared reference points as the band worked on the album together.