Single Review: Blonde Bazaar’s ‘These Walls’

“These Walls,” the debut single from Blonde Bazaar is one-part dark emotional tread through the monotonous grind of the ersatz life and another part something else.

The song starts with the repetitive drone of a riff that discharges the feeling of being trapped in one place. The lyrics are all over the place as the song is stuffed, wild and untamed. At times, you think this song is about finding oneself, but then there’s a profound gloom haunting every verse that’s unsettling and creepy.

Leah Page’s capabilities as a singer, she studied opera in a Gregorian Church, are in full display as she effortlessly climbs from a mellow timbre to the highest octave of sensuous shrills. Page is a pleasure to hear, but this song batters your mind against all the walls.

“These Walls” is garrulous. It has everything from “iron suicide,” to a mysterious “red circle” that never gets defined, to something being like a “helicopter ride.” There’s no structure to the lyrics or a developed emotional message to take away from the song. Going through the lyrics it’s difficult to clearly find the chorus.

In “These Walls,” Page and her band take the well of angst to delivers a work of great emotional vigor. However there’s too much ambiguity in the lyrics, and too much emotions that rises and falls. However, Page is the silver lining of this song as you are curious to listen to more of Blonde Bazaar with the hope that their other songs are less bizarre.