Love The Bomb, by Blackbird Belle

Love The Bomb

by Blackbird Belle

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1.	Be the Love 03:31	buy track
2.	Ensorcelling the Oracle 02:30	buy track
3.	Chronomancy 02:38	buy track
4.	Elemental 02:15	buy track
5.	Glassed Out 02:08	buy track
6.	Love the Bomb 03:27	buy track
7.	Doubt 02:19	buy track
8.	The Hard Goodbye 03:02	buy track

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As a producer, Zack Mitchell has never been one to shy away from the cosmic. His first three albums as Blackbird Belle were tailored for headphone cosmonauts, boasting beautiful beats imbued with allusions to celestial nocturnes, mythical kingdoms, and worlds within worlds. Love The Bomb is the fourth album in this continuing saga, and it arrives with a minor caveat - escapism can only take your creativity so far. We all love to have our head in the clouds, but everyone needs to come back to Earth, at least once in a while.

That idea, and the main inspiration for the album were both drawn from the subtitle of Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb). As a touchstone for the record, the personal impact of that tongue-in-cheek tagline gradually became increasingly significant to Mitchell over time. To summarize the ethos: in order to survive, you must learn to embrace the chaos you cannot control.

From the introductory orchestral swells of the opener, Be the Love, all the way to the triumphant, yet faintly mournful finality of the record’s coda, it is apparent that this was taken to heart. Elsewhere on the record, the immaculate vibe of Elemental’s ethereal odyssey elevates listeners to new heights, while the joyous, rollicking drum break and infectious riffs of the title track cast sun-soaked, brilliant beams of luminance across every surface of the mind.

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released November 4, 2022

Production & Artwork by Blackbird Belle

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Blackbird Belle Kingston, Ontario

"I'll tell you stories bruised and blue, of drum machines and landslides."

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Elegy

Jan 2024
Musashi

Sep 2023
Oblivion Lung

Jul 2023
Vox Obscura

Jan 2023
Love The Bomb

Nov 2022
Microcosm

Nov 2021
Enhasa

Aug 2020
Celestial Nighthawk

Feb 2020

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