Shaping a soundscape of dreamy alternative rock bliss with unapologetic and captivating lyricism, Blonde Diamond have been on a trajectory that is hard not to be dazzled by. The Vancouver-based dream-pop band have graced stages across Canada, Europe, Australia, the US, and India, sharing bills along the way with stalwarts such as Portugal. The Man, Broken Social Scene, Bishop Briggs, Chromeo, Mother Mother, and more.
The band’s debut single, “Feel Alright” (2016), peaked at no. 6 on the Spotify Viral Charts within a week of its release, and the rest of their debut EP Feel Alright has surpassed a million streams. In 2017, Blonde Diamond won the coveted nationwide JUNO Master Class mentorship program, and their 2018 EP Fantasy Love saw them tour around the world and impress audiences on festival stages. Over the pandemic, the band played virtual festivals and shows, appeared in Tegan and Sara’s video for “I Know I’m Not The Only One”, and released a cover of The Specials “Ghost Town” paired with a dramatic visual to raise awareness for shuttered venues, whilst writing and recording their long awaited first full-length debut record.
Magnetic Strangers, the debut LP from Vancouver’s Blonde Diamond is “a narrative about the laws of attraction, whether that be to a stranger, to a person, to a feeling, to a place,” says frontwoman Alexis Young. The record’s menagerie of operatic, late-night indie rock and roll, dive-bar R&B, charred disco, and wide-eyed electro pop play host to a warring between choice, agency, reason, and compulsion. Magnetic Strangers’ ten tracks present a psychedelic, boundary-tensing work: that rare record which poses as many questions in its lyrics as it does in its compositions. If you’re brave enough to search for answers to them, Blonde Diamond invites you to saddle up.
