Blanck Mass - Blanck Mass (Clear Vinyl)

Blanck Mass - Blanck Mass (Clear Vinyl)In 2011, Benjamin John Power (Fuck Buttons) released his first solo album as Blanck Mass on Rock Action Records. The vinyl went out of print shortly thereafter and has been largely unavailable ever since. Now, nine years later, Sacred Bones Records is honored to put it back in print. Blanck Mass is Benjamin John Power, a young musician in thrall to Carl Sagan, Ennio Morricone and the infinity of nature, both universal and personal. His eponymous debut

with a more afrobeat feel

It is the sound of a band comfortable in their own skin

“slowah” eases us into Price’s world as layered guitars and keyboards slowly build and fellow Head Wayne Maskell joins in on percussion

Since 1993

Manu Dibango needs little introduction

Love is real

drums and percussions with brass instruments and organ adding more intensity to it the solo eruptions and duels in combination with Segun Bucknor’s commanding soulful vocal delivery really brand their progressions

analog synths and Sonic’s recognizable guitar treatments

Beckoned by John Peel himself

Low repeated this process for the better part of two years

These songs

and lovesick hustlers drift in and out of his masked gaze