Soul Blind "Red Sky Mourning"

Red Sky Mourning is Soul Blind’s highly anticipated sophomore effort, ten tracks spanning 35 minutes with big shoes to fill– the much loved Feel it All Around LP. For this go around, Soul Blind enlisted Jon Markson and Adam Cichocki to capture the sound they cultivated after the extensive odometer clicks that came with the last offering. “We toured a lot off of Feel it All Around and wanted to capture how we sounded live– and I think this is definitely closer to that,” admits bassist/vocalist Cen. ”People would come up to us after a show and tell us how heavy it sounded, so that was really important– capturing that energy. Jon and Adam were a great fit for us and it shows on the record.”

To harness the power of their live show, Soul Blind congregated at Animal Farm in Flemington, NJ for a month, a space that incubated recordings by Drug Church, Drain, KOYO and countless others. There the band explored their love for Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Melvins, mid to late-era Killing Joke, The Cure and all manner of early 90s alternative rock, boiling them down to an essence and passing them through Soul Blind’s hardcore and DIY-inflected sieve. The contained nature of the sessions yielded results that are a pensive, emotional journey through pain, isolation and darkness until eventual redemption and hope could be found with the rising sun.“Staying and recording in the same space was really beneficial to our collective creativity,” recalls drummer Steve Hurley. “Just being in the mindset everyday and being together, singularly focused. We’d wake up, have a full day of recording, and then be free to use the same gear to flesh out ideas for as long as we needed.”