No One Loves You

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guitars clash, fire and sting like faulty synapses and frayed nerve endingsits potent stuff Pitchfork // Even though Blis is pretty young, the Atlanta four-piece is already drawing comparisons to some of indie rocks biggest names. Though its quick to namecheck Weatherbox and American Football, the band has had other heavy-hitters like Modest Mouse and Silversun Pickups lobbed at it as well. AV Club. Debut albums are rarely fully-formed. Theyre ground zero for artists to experiment, breathing room to allow musicians to form identities within their project. Atlanta, GAs Blis. debut LP, No One Loves You, avoids the trope: its an album of a band thats lived a lot of life, exploring sonic realms that on the surface, should not go together, but manage to find cohesion. The record mosaics their influencesthe intricate rock riffs of American Football, Pedro the Lions midtempo balladry gone awry with crucial aggression, indie rock sensibility that has mainstream press publications referencing Modest Mouse and Silversun Pickups. It was their 2015 Starting Fires in My Parents House EP that inspired Sargent House Records to sign them. The band officially started recording under the Blis. name a few years ago, but frontman/primary songwriter Aaron Gossett has been pursuing the project for much longer. Its pretty much the first musical endeavor I did after high school, he recounts. The quartetdrummer Jimi Ingman, bassist Luke Jones, guitarist Josiah Smith and Gossetthave found a system that works, though the process was arduous. In the two years since their last EP, theyre at home with their lineup, theyve spent an impossible amount of time on the road (including a two month U.S. tour with now label mates And So I Watch You From Afar). No One Loves You is a record of complex musicianship and even more complicated emotional developmentdespondent songs that criticize the negative forces in Gossetts life while never feeling particularly hopeless. Almost every track mentions God or religion. He explains. If you get to the core of a lot of religions, theyre kind of awful: really disgusting homophobic, misogynistic shit. Its harsh, but near the heart of Blis. Theres loving sentiment beneath the percussion, beneath the moments of riotous riffing and explosive texture. Even the title of the record itself reflects the duality of Gossetts interpretation. Lost Boy is a love letter to his partner and a criticism of blind belief.