HOME BLITZ - All Through The Year 12"

"ATTY continues the same thread while also leaning into newer, stranger territory, which is a feat for this group/project that has never been short on strangeness. “What We Were” is a speedy power-pop flip-trick, barely a minute long, leading into the college-wave swing of “Final Decay”, which utilizes bass-guitar and electronic percussive elements for what might be the catchiest Home Blitz tune yet? Not counting the unexpected musical drop-out a couple minutes in, leading to just a kick-drum and DiMaggio’s frustrated ranting, of course. Foreshadowing things to come on the b-side, a-side closer “What I Say I Mean” is a sassy stream of melodic speak-singing and crusty chimes. This leads to the unbridled mania of “Real Green”, a wildly spiraling suite of precocious classical piano, strings, musical theater, sound effects, and the near-constant stream of DiMaggio’s vocal consciousness, which slowly grows more and more indignant – his words are practically impossible to follow, but I know a string of swear-words when I hear them. The song eventually breaks into Home Blitz’s “Pointed Sticks at the Ren Faire” vibe that consumed much of Foremost + Fair, but there’s so much musical information packed into these 9 minutes that trying to dissect it is pointless." - YGR

"I used to not like Home Blitz. It took me years of going back to their album Foremost and Fair and asking myself “why do I keep listening to this if I don’t like it?”. Then one day I realized how great it was. I was happy, and the album's leftfield pop with the peculiarly affected vocals, weird interludes and baroque structures suddenly made sense.

This 12” follows in the style of the LP but pushes the weirdness even further, which is great. The 4 songs represent the seasons. Summer is “What We Were”, a shard of perfect jangle-pop clocking in at barely a minute and still managing to include a slice of 12-string magic, an earworm of a hook and a couple of unexpected turns towards ambient noise." - GRRAWR