Blades Of Joy

San Francisco's Blades of Joy injected a dreamy romance into their sometimes abrasive sound, drawing equal influence from both the drift of shoegaze and the angsty push of post-punk. Vocalist Inna Showalter and guitarist Anthony OBC, both working-class musicians, began collaborating on songs and eventually formed a full band around their richly detailed noise pop creations. Informed by the contrasting energies of their Bay Area surroundings, songwriters Showalter and OBC began writing together in the winter of 2015, often lacing their songs with direct inspiration from gritt...