Returning after a six-year hiatus, Blessed Child Opera releases a stirring track in “Oblivion,” marking the first single from upcoming album Red Flags, out on March 21st. The Ragusa, Italy-based project is led by Paolo Messere, who also directed the track’s music video. Depictions of fields from a moving train prove visually poignant within the release’s introspective themes, which delve into a yearning to re-ignite fading connections that are at risk of being lost to a sort of “cosmic oblivion.”
“Oblivion” impresses with a dynamic tonal range, enveloping across introspective moments of moody acoustic strums and rousing doses of emotion; the latter is especially evident past the two-minute turn, when twanging guitars and string-laden brooding complement doubt-referencing lyrical intrigue. “There are no ways to go back,” Messere’s bleak vocals enthrall, lamenting on the inability to mend past mistakes. Ruminations on personal desire and the impermanent tendency of relationships rouse amidst this hypnotic rock production, representing a welcome return for Blessed Child Opera.
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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
We discovered this release via MusoSoup, as part of the artist’s promotional campaign.
