“This album is dedicated to the brave explorers of the future, as well as the ones of the past crossing vast oceans. Never knowing if they would see humanity ever again. 🪐”
Literally spaced out electronic synthesis, Deep Space Blues by Pale Blü Dot is an unsettling study on the ever-circulating sci-fi concept of post-Earth humanity. From the album’s opening, hesitant questions—”Hello? Can anybody hear me?”—eerie unease pervades the album, each track an unstable setting of electronics and glitched out vocals expressing a poetics of communication, disconnection, and change.
Even the most otherworldly art pieces we fabricate always end up reflecting the realities of life on this planet, and that’s true here too, whether it’s emotional/relational disconnect cast as “Communication Delay” or interpersonal/social isolation so extreme that “Sometimes I Feel Like an Alien.” By exploring the concept of humans born in space (for whom “Earth Is a Story We Tell”), Pale Blü Dot ends up presenting the strange, disorienting feeling of being alive on this spaceship we call Earth.
Deep Space Blues is one of two new albums via Airlock Recordings, along with the club-ready junglism of 2025_I by UFO!
