Australian screamo band Blind Girls just recently announced a US tour with Michigan’s Heavenly Blue on several dates, and now they’ve announced a new album, the followup to 2022’s The Weight of Everything. Titled An Exit Exists, it comes out digitally on July 5 via Persistent Vision Records, and a vinyl release will follow (Persistent Vision, Touché Amoré vocalist Jeremy Bolm’s label Secret Voice, and Australian label Life Lair Regret all have variants — click the label links to pre-order).
“An Exit Exists was written during and after two separate instances dealing with abuse from those I loved,” says vocalist Sharni Brouwer. “Each song is a reflection on the emotions and process I went through, from realization, feeling trapped, guilt, defeat, acceptance, and eventually finding a safe way out.”
We’re premiering lead single/opening track “Dissonance,” a 73-second song that injects the band’s OG-style screamo with a little mathcore chaos, and it makes for a punishing, promising first taste. Check it out below.
Blind Girls and Heavenly Blue’s tour includes a Brooklyn show on July 27 at Gold Sounds with the reunited We Were Skeletons, as well as Kiande Amedha and Burial Dance. BG and HB also play New Brunswick, NJ Mexican Restaurant Cinco de Mayo on July 26, and BG also have upcoming shows with Militarie Gun, Saetia, Frail Body, Ostraca, Nuvoluscura, and more. All dates are listed below.
Tracklist
1) Dissonance
2) Loveless
3) Blemished Memory
4) Less than Three
5) Make Me Nothing
6) Pallid Mask
7) Closer to Hell
8) AI Generated Love Letter
9) Lilac
10) Death of an Unsung Thought
11) …It’s Starting to Rain
12) Home Will Find Its Way
Blind Girls — 2024 Tour Dates
June 28 – Southport, AUS @ Vinnie’s Dive (w/ Militarie Gun)
June 30 – Brisbane, AUS @ The Outpost (w/ Militarie Gun)
July 5 – Seattle, WA @ Black Lodge (w/ Great Falls)
July 6 – Portland, OR @ Star Theatre (w/ Saetia)
July 7 – Berkeley, CA @ 924 Gilman Street (w/ Clay Birds)
July 8 – Sacramento, CA @ DNL Studios (w/ Ostraca, Nuvoluscura)
July 9 – Bakersfield, CA @ 415 BKFD (w/ Frail Body)
July 10 – Los Angeles, CA @ Coyote Studios (w/ Kiowa)
July 11 – Pomona, CA @ The Haven (w/ Quiet Fear)
July 12 – San Diego, CA @ Che Cafe (w/ Lagrimas, Ostraca, Nuvoluscura)
July 13 – Los Angeles, CA @ Bad Dogg
July 14 – Phoenix, AZ @ Ground Zero Studios
July 16 – Albuquerque, NM @ Rens Den
July 17 – Oklahoma, OK @ The Sanctuary
July 18 – Denton, TX @ Andys Bar (w/ Bullets Between Tongues)
July 19 – Austin, TX @ Empire (w/ Bullets Between Tongues)
July 20 – San Marcos, TX @ Private Park (w/ Bullets Between Tongues)
July 21 – Houston, TX @ 1810 Ojeman (w/ Bullets Between Tongues)
July 22 – Richmond, VA @ Cobra Cabana (w/ Heavenly Blue)
July 23 – Philadelphia, PA @ Kensington Palace (w/ Heavenly Blue)
July 24 – Washington, DC @ TBA (w/ Heavenly Blue)
July 25 – Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery (w/ Heavenly Blue)
July 26 – New Brunswick, NJ @ Cinco De Mayo (w/ Heavenly Blue)
July 27 – Brooklyn, NY @ Gold Sounds (w/ Heavenly Blue, We Were Skeletons)
July 28 – Providence, RI @ AS220 (w/ Heavenly Blue)
July 29 – Boston, MA @ Coco’s Club House (w/ Heavenly Blue)
July 30 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Roboto (w/ Heavenly Blue)
July 31 – Detroit, MI @ Secret Show (w/ Heavenly Blue)
August 1 – Waterloo, ON @ Maxwells (w/ Heavenly Blue)
August 3 – Toronto, ON @ New Friends Fest (w/ Raein, Glassing)