BLUE HOUR DELUXE

Blue Hour DeluxeCarissa JohnsonAlbumGenre: Rock/PopLabel: Rum Bar RecordsDescription: EDITORIAL REVIEWS Carissa Johnson is known for her straight-forward lyrics driving melodies and her band’s inimitable live energy. From the start Johnson has been supported sonically by hard-grooving drums growling bass lines and resonant guitar melodies. Johnson’s brand new album release Blue Hour Deluxe is a 22 track collection of kinetic synth-laden indie-rock songs that serve as a chronicle of a year spent inside oneself an study of loneliness self-doubt frustration and motivation backed by dreamy electronic production and driving percussion. Lyrically many of the songs on Blue Hour are reflective of the isolation in which they were born but musically the record buzzes with the energy of collaboration a sea of disparate influences coming together to create a modern indie-pop masterpiece. Blue Hour Deluxe features the full Blue Hour album compiled with The Good EP and L'Heure Bleue After Dark. A must have completist release for fans old and new to the magic art and creativity of Carissa Johnson. REVIEW She mixes a Joan Jett look with the pop sensibility of early Tegan and Sara and Green Day. In other words the songs write themselves. --Mark Lind State Line RecordsYou know how gen X spent too much time listening to boys in spandex when it could’ve been mainlining Joan Jett? Well let’s not make that mistake again. Carissa has it all the songs the voice the sneer and the charisma. --The Boston HeraldCarissa Johnson is most often called a punk. That makes sense. She would have fit right in on a CBGBs bill between Blondie and the Ramones in ’76. But she’s also a songwriter’s songwriter in the vein of Aimee Mann Chrissie Hynde and Bruce Springsteen. --Jed Gottleib.