#Blue Zero

[bandcampsnoop]

9/6/24.

Chris Natividad has been a significant part of the Oakland music scene for years - Marbled Eye, Aluminum, Public Interest and now Blue Zero.

Marbled Eye and Public Interest to remind me of Total Control, Diat, Ausmuteants, Wire and the new Osees. Aluminum have more of a shoegaze sound while (based on this one song) Blue Zero seem like a combination of all those sounds - maybe add in a little Erik Blood.

Blue Zero "Colder Shade Blue" is being released by Lower Grand. I also received an email letting me know that Marbled Eye's first two releases are being combined into one stellar LP. You can listen and order from Digital Regress.

[dustedmagazine]

Blue Zero — Colder Shade of Blue (Lower Grand Tapes)

Blue Zero drifts through a slippery chill, riding big, elongated guitar tones across slowed-down hooky melodies. Slowdive is maybe the best shoegaze reference, for the way this band balances the sweet, accessible tune with glacially reserved atmospherics, though you’ll hear echoes of Cocteau Twins and My Bloody Valentine, too. You might also pick up on some Sonic Youth-like breakaway double guitar interplay in spots and even some surf jangling Jayhawks in “Foot in the Grave” but the main flavor is a late-1980s effects-sculpted buzz and croon.

The band is one of many Bay Area projects to feature Christopher Natividad on guitar, though more in line with his fuzzed pop Aluminum than Marbled Eye or Public Interest. Lauren Melton, she of droning, sheets-of-sound SUCKER, plays the bass, while Rick Altieri of the fractious, blown-out pop outfit Blue Ocean adds another guitar.  

That dual guitar squall lights up “Lemon Year,” which opens with a fuzzy lick then falls backwards into ecstatic clouds of tone. Natividad sings a slow-blooming melody here. He allows the notes hang in the air until they dissolve, creating a sense of stillness even amid wild caterwauling of guitar. “Scar” is clearer but more hallucinatory, a lucid dream full of sharp edges and bright colors. One guitar snaps and scratches, while the other carves giant arcs of tone, a balance of muscle and reverie. Similarly in “Fortress,” one guitar keeps a twitchy rhythm, another piles up euphoric atmospheres. The vocal melodies feel right and satisfying, a guide through agitation and calm.

There’s quite a lot of contemporary shoegaze out there at the moment, and you may wonder whether you really need any more of it. But Blue Zero cuts through a crowded field with uncalculating grace, its squall and fury sweetened with memorable songs.

Jennifer Kelly

[blush-and-books]

Yes Joe Biden dropped out and you still need to vote blue. Hope this helps

[stargirl230]

moonlighting 🌚✨

i’m so rusty from not drawing for a whole semester (sobs) but its ok now because kaito's here

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[copperpipes]

Same shit, different flavors.

[cute-girls-from-vns-anime-manga]

Jane Doe by Koahri

[repmet]

@rwrbsource & @rwrbmovie’s rwrb appreciation month bingo: favourite scene

I'll break the sound barrier for you.

[gofishygo]

"transmasc lesbians dont exist !!" ok then explain this absolute fucking zest fest

[cubbihue]

What would Peri’s power level be if he didn’t have his inhibitor/stabilizer wand and just went apeshit?

While Cosmo deals with too much magic in his body, Peri suffers from a slightly different issue. Cosmo has the greatest amount of magic in Fairy World. Peri is incapable of regulating his magic.

Peri cannot, not then as a child and not now in the present, control his magic. Without his inhibitor, he can easily destroy an entire realm- just as he nearly destroyed Earth as a baby. This fact has not changed, although it is less plausible today than back then.

Peri's taken extra measures in the present-day to ensure it cannot happen.

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[yestrnight]

DOWN THIS RABBIT HOLE WE GO ! nite's kinktober 2024 m.list

ladies and gentlemen im about to match your freak this october

╰ may include. blue lock, genshin, honkai star rail, zzz, jjk, obey me, whb, twst

MESSAGE: warning i have not written anything yet lmao we're about to go in this bitch blind but lust is blind and baby imma read this like braille. this will be updated throughout the month also ignore my incoherent horny ramblings along the way. also i made this list myself. i made sure to choose all the freaky ones

day one | magical healing cock

PURI☆PURI HEALING CUM GO! magical girl! childe / reader ╰ oh no! while fighting the big bad monster, pure☆aqua accidentally let you, a civillian, get caught in the crossfire! before you transform into one of the baddie's goons, pure☆aqua needs to give you a magical girl's cum before it's too late!

day two | lactation

MY TITS ARE DOWN HERE! gallagher / gn! reader ╰ he's tired of slutting it out everyday for you and never catching your eye. after ingesting a vial out of sheer desperation, his heavy chest is now leaking milk and— oh dear, you wouldn't mind relieving his poor, swollen tits, right?

day three | audience

CLIP THAT, CHAT! streamers! venti, xiao, scara, heizou, kazuha / f! reader ╰ in a sex-positive world, showing off your nethers isn't going to earn you a ban on twitch.com. you, however, are a prude, and your streamer roommates are about to break you in front of the entire world just to change that.

day four | pegging

BY MY COCK YOU SHALL REPENT! oliver aiku / gn! reader ╰ playboys are the scum of the earth! you've watched all your friends cry one after the other because of some stupid washed-up soccer player. the last straw is oliver making your older sister cry! luckily, you've got just the right utensils to make him taste his own medicine...

day five | sex toys

THE MAGICAL POCKET PUSSY! ace trappola / afab! reader / deuce spade ╰ there's always something happening in night raven college, but even adeuce didn't expect a pocket pussy arriving on their front door step. there's really no harm in trying it out but huh... it feels so warm and wet... and huh! why are you blushing and squirming like that!?

day six | size difference

I'M JUST A GIRL :( true form! ryomen sukuna / f! reader ╰ after witnessing japan's newest oppressor in person, him and his 10 feet, four-armed, mouth-belly glory is all you can think about. so you accidentally stumble near his territory... just in time for sukuna to start wanting some fresh meat to make a snack of.

day seven | oviposition

TO EGG OR NOT TO EGG. naga! jamil viper / afab! reader ╰ you've been hearing rumors about a mythical naga residing in the forests. as an avid... researcher, you venture into the deep in search for the truth. you meet him, and quickly find yourself as his breeding ground this mating season.

day eight | monsterfucking

💉stay tuned for this day's lucky bastard!

we're not done yet !

[luminarai]

I’ve seen a lot of people wonder if Taigen’s gonna pull a Li Shang from Mulan once he finds out about Mizu’s Secret™️ but I mean. This man’s internal logic is already so damn weird, this might as well happen, y’know??

Bonus:

[edenianleena]

OMG, Bi-Han.👀❄️💙✨

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[vashito]

Tope con Giro!! 📸💙 Blue Corazon (zero-g) (oc)

[unganseylike]

we needed an arc of blue and adam moving in together at some point. there should be more plotlines where circumstances force you to move in with your ex girlfriend

[definitelynotshouting]

You have synesthesia?? How does that work for you? Is this how you manage to use the word “meat” in a way that makes me go “holy shit that’s good and cool i need to read that sentence four more times” instead of “ew”?????

I do!!! Letters, numbers, and words all have colours and sometimes visual textures for me-- and while numbers and letters on their own are generally only a single colour (7 is a bright, grassy green!!! while "K" is a pale peachy pink, for example :] ), when i put them into words they often take on entirely new colours, some of which even bleed into each other like watercolour paints. Ironically, its why i use the UK spelling of "colour" in the first place-- the "u" turns what looks like a dull, desaturated blue into a smeared blue-and-purple that i find really pretty to look at :]] so when i say i like to paint with words, i kinda mean that literally 😂😂😂😂😂

But yeah, i'd imagine thats why my writing is Like That™ to some degree-- a lot of what im doing behind the scenes involves matching the colours and visual textures of a given word with all of the others in order to evoke a particular vibe or image in my writing. There are a lot of layers to how i write, but this is probably the one that takes both the most time AND is the one i happen to talk about the least WKDJWKSJEJ

[rennebright]

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