Earlier this week, I found myself waxing melancholic again over the retirement of Vaults, the British electronica and cinematic synthpop band that brought us a phenomenal debut album named Caught In Still Life two years ago. I was immensely fond of their music, and of singer Blythe Pepino’s magnificent vocals, as you probably recall from the deluge of endless praise and adulation we poured upon their songs. The moment they announced that they were breaking up, a part of me figured that we’d hear from Blythe Pepino again. There was no way that talent, and that voice, was going to disappear from us forever, and we were sure whatever she’d bring us next would be wonderful, too. So when I was missing Vaults earlier this week, my brows furrowed and I started wondering to myself, “What is Blythe doing now?” I ran a quick Google search, and voila, I found out about her current project Mesadorm, involving musicians who’ve played with the likes of Goldfrapp, Rae Morris, Paloma Faith, Frank Turner, and The Magnetic North. I quickly dove into the UK quintet’s music, which I immediately found chimerical and fanciful, enchanting and beguiling.
One Of My Friends is Mesadorm’s latest single, a meditatively fantastical, delicately trickling indietronica and art/baroque pop song featuring, who else, but Blythe Pepino on ever mesmerizing vocals. It’s a complexly entrancing, gorgeously crafted song (with some chill Moby vibes at certain choice moments) and quite the stunner to not be receiving much more attention and love. You can find the song on iTunes, here. For more of Mesadorm’s eccentric and experimental sounds, stream darker and more urgent Yours And Not Yours below, as well as dreamy surreal debut single Tell Me below. Now that I know of Mesadorm’s existence, I’m not letting them out of my sight. Mesadorm already has a debut album named Heteregaster out on Rough Trade, here.
