hometown: Victoria, BC
Angus Watt: Guitar, Vocals, Songwriter
Hanum Yoon-Henderson: Percussionist
Luvy Vishek: Bass
Connor Head: Guitar
Eric Killian: Keys
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Bio
Art-rock and funk join hands in a marriage of stutter and groove, officiated by Pastel Blank. Formed in 2017, the Victoria-based project is led by Angus Watt. Pulling influence from the jerky rhythms and genre-blending curiosity of Talking Heads as well as the interlocking guitar-work of Canadian post-punk luminaries Women, the music of Pastel Blank cloaks experimentation in pop-minded song structure. Skeletal, wobbly guitars squeeze around the propulsive engine of thumping bass and drums, driving the beat forward as Watt’s percussive voice weaves a stream of cryptics into tongue-in-cheek wordplay reminiscent of Stephen Malkumus or Dan Bejar.
In February 2020, Pastel Blank released Cinema Is Cheap, a standalone single written and recorded in a hazy fervour over the course of one night in a small, airless room at a former band house. In December 2020, writing and demo work on Pastel Blanc, the band’s debut EP, commenced. The album, released June 2022, produced and engineered by David Parry (Loving, Alice Phoebe Lou, Jons) and Oliver Hollingshead, is a tightly packaged collection of jittery and joyous songs, oblique stories, and above all – a through line groove to move the listener.
Discography
Pastel Blanc – June 2022
Latest news
Pastel Blank will be playing Rifflandia 2022 on September 17th at Electric Avenue.
In April 2022, we recorded our full length follow-up album to Pastel Blanc. No release date yet!
MP3s
Pastel Blank – Fences (download)
Pastel Blank – Picture Perfect (download)
Pastel Blank – Attention! Shopkeeper (download)
