The Blue Hour: "Always" out 27 October 2017

Seattle’s The Blue Hour Unveil ‘One More Mystery’ Video from Forthcoming Album ‘Always’
Early 4AD-Style Ethereal Folk-Noir Par Excellence

FOR LOVERS OF: Kate Bush, Marissa Nadler, Chelsea Wolfe, early 4AD output (This Mortal Coil, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance), Sharon Van Etten, Siouxsie Sioux
FOCUS TRACKS: On The Wall, One More Mystery, A Tree Stands Alone, False Moon Glow, Fire on the Rooftops, Block The Sound

FOR SHARING
‘One More Mystery’ https://youtu.be/IZ8F7YzM_lI
‘Fire on The Rooftops’ https://youtu.be/YsWS_f2fZhg
‘Always’ LP https://thebluehour.bandcamp.com/album/always
‘Kyoto Song’ single (The Cure) https://thebluehour.bandcamp.com/album/kyoto-song
Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/the_blue_hour/the-blue-hour-one-more-mystery
Artist photos taken by Hailie Newman. Live photo by Coe Theil

The Blue Hour was born of glamor and squalor. Brian and Marselle met as teenage street kids, sleeping in abandoned buildings and dancing the nights away in Seattle’s new wave clubs.  After many lost years, they again reunited and began creating music together. The band has seen several incarnations since founded in 1993 by multi-instrumentalist Brian Hodges.  Originally intended to be a side project to psychedelic goth band Black Atmosphere, The Blue Hour released several albums of “romantic ethereal neofolk” between 1998 and 2001 for European independent labels Perun and Big Blue.

Brian Hodges put his music on hiatus until 2016, when he again began writing in order to teach the craft to their daughter.  That project became the band’s new single “One More Mystery”, which saw the addition of Marselle’s voice and melodies – creating the gold seam that ran right into their new album ‘Always’.
Over the years, Brian and The Blue Hour have played with numerous seminal goth, new wave and neofolk acts, including The Church, Sex Gang Children, Gitane Demone, Unto Ashes, Sol Invictus, and In Gowan Ring.
Co-written and performed by Brian and Marseille, the two also share vocal duties on the ‘Always’ album. Maria Grig also contributes strings on three tracks: ‘One More Mystery’, ‘Block the Sound’ and ‘Lost Landmarks’. Written and recorded between December 2016 and June 2017 at the Piksie Nest and Rabbit Hole, this album was mastered by Wade Alin at Standard Mastering.