Bliss is French chanteuse Vanessa Paradis’ long-awaited fourth studio album – her first studio effort in eight years – and the title could not sum it up better.
Kick the hard-ass end of Pantera into a Relapse blender, grind thoroughly, and then slurp back over a hearty human lunch with Cannibal and you get close.
The radio remix of “Paperdoll” and live versions of Spit’s “Spit,” “Brackish,” “Suck,” “Do You Think I’m a Whore?,” “Raven,” and the video of “Charlotte.”
Many of the songs have appeared on previous records, but these slow, touching, swirling and beautifully sad renditions were how they were originally written.
Heavenly slices of melancholy drowned in ear-candy instrumentation, topped with yearning/crooning so evocative it almost surpasses the vocals on Clarity.
Jebediah tries not to sound like a wimpy Nirvana crossed with Sixpence None The Richer, but writes six minute pop tunes that should’ve been under three.