DURAN bless the shadows with noisy Tokyo blues on What You Don’t Bless

DURAN’s What You Don’t Bless lands on 17 June from Tokyo with the blunt confidence of a trio that knows how to make a room feel smaller and louder. The lineup is direct: Duran on guitar and vocals, MASAE on bass and Shiho on drums, with recording at Live Music & Bar Maman and mastering by Soichiro Nakamura at Peace Music Studio. The tags say blues, garage rock and noise rock, and that mixture gives the album a rough, appealing charge. This is not blues as polite preservation. It is blues dragged through smoke, feedback, bad choices and Japanese underground grit. The lyrics quoted on the Bandcamp page speak of shadows, masks, fury and uncontrolled paths, which fits the sound world perfectly. What You Don’t Bless sounds like music made by people who know the blessing may not arrive, so they turn the amps up anyway.

Source: https://theduran.bandcamp.com/album/what-you-dont-bless