Coming from separate mystical solar systems, and embracing different influences and methods,
this collective implodes and explodes. Blue Crime’s strong imagery forms a tight symbiosis with
the music–they dress to blend in with the spheric visual projections that swirl over and around
them, adding another intriguing layer to what is a deeply immersive live experience. These visual
elements are an almost ritualistic token between the individuals who’ve grown into one collective
unanimous voice.
After the 70’s cult era fad, we find ourselves in an the entropic modern day where ideas have been
recycled and New Age stores open up a quick as a fast food joints. People need to feel routed
and grounded to something. Blue Crime is a band that when you listen to their music, it changes
how you feel about two parallel universes at the same time. Writer Alexandra Duvekot teaches us
that rather than exploring a different age, we could look deeper into our past. To keep one foot
with our ancestors and one foot looking into the stars.
Much has happened since the band’s genesis. Founded by Alexandra Duvekot in 2015, Blue
Crime is now wanderlust led them on extensive tours across Europe and North America, and in
2015, they released debut EP TYR–a candid documentation of the music’s infancy–via
independent label and art collective Meduse MagiQ. Rigorous touring spurred a rapid evolution,
as Blue Crime began to project a dynamic and commanding live presence, one that elicits
contrasting reactions wherever they perform. The spartan doom-rock thrust of “Trigger” and
radiant, moon-stricken post- folk of “Machinery” may be stark contrasts in another band’s
repertoire, but when it comes to Blue Crime, everything falls seamlessly into place.
Since releasing TYR, Blue Crime have managed to capture various stages of their unique voyage
on tape. They released the homemade Bunker EP on cassette, as well as the Submarine 7-inch on
Bronson Recordings, which features two tracks recorded in New York’s beautiful Catskills. They
even caught Robert Smith’s ear and were asked by him to play his Meltdown Festival in London
last year.
On their upcoming debut LP, Blue Crime harness and mold their inner fire as a tight-knit
collective. This feminine group of free spirits has transformed into a pack, hungry and high-wired
with visceral energy. A headstrong dynamic that defines Blue Crime’s monolithic sound: they’re an
amorphous, elusive rock band who recognize the vastness of silence, but can turn on a whim with
a sonic force equivalent to a hundred billion exploding suns. A band who have become close in a
way that transcends language or thought, their chaos allowed to run rampant and reign free.
Blue Crime is psychedelic rock music that goes deep into that pit in your stomach that makes you
confront what you are hiding. The unique voice of Duvekot feels nostalgic to the first noise folk
record that really « did something » for you. Standing on stage, you know she is your ally. Blue
Crime is a band that screams chaos and harmony at the same time and one that needs to be
experienced live.
Here is a great video from their 1st EP:
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