EXCLUSIVE NMR Artist Spotlight: the Blue Hour
NMR Artist Spotlight: The Blue Hour The Blue Hour blends dream pop, synth wave, and industrial with hints of psychedelia, folk, and electronica to create hauntingly beautiful songs, focusing on texture and rhythm and discord ... and magic.
What inspires your
music? What is your story? The Blue Hour’s new
album, “Always,” is a tale of romance and loss and finding magic in the most
unexpected places. It is Marselle and my story. She and I met many years ago as
teenagers. She was homeless, living on the streets of Seattle. I soon followed.
We drifted from the glitz of dance clubs to the squalor of abandoned houses,
sleeping in door stoops, church yards, or curled on a hot-air vent in the
shadow of a grand gothic building on the university campus. And the whole time
Marselle sang, filling those neglected spaces with an ethereal beauty, singing
Kate Bush or Nina Hagen note-perfect. It wasn’t desperate
however. Everywhere we went, we created a fantastic world. Even though we could
be run o…