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Pale Blue

The project of producer Mike Simonetti and vocalist Elizabeth Wight, Pale Blue inventively combines transporting electronic music with moving songwriting. With Wight's multi-octave voice and Simonetti's shape-shifting productions as their constants, they're as confident fusing techno, ambient, and house with noise, drone, and dream pop as they are covering Big Star or Bruce Springsteen, or writing songs inspired by Lord Byron's poetry or domestic abuse. Pale Blue introduced their dreamily cathartic chemistry with 2015's debut album The Past We Leave Behind, then expanded on it with EPs including 2018's shoegaze-tinged You Stopped Dying and 2020's Breathe and Silver Tears, a pair of releases that showcased their ability to confront -- and release -- suffering through dance music. On the kinetic love songs of 2023's Maria, Pale Blue borrowed from pop and classic rock song structures and album sequencing, proving their mix of innovation and emotion was as vital as ever. As Simonetti was writing the songs that appeared on his 2011 EP Capricorn Rising, the New Jersey-based Italians Do It Better co-founder remixed some tracks by Silver Hands, the Los Angeles indie duo that featured Wight as a singer. Simonetti was struck by Wight's wide-ranging voice, and the pair's e-mails led to making music together. Taking their moniker from Carl Sagan's name for the 1990 photo of Earth taken by the Voyager 1 space probe, Pale Blue finished recording their debut album late in 2014, with Wight contributing vocals remotely and Simonetti shaping his productions around them. Around that time, he left Italians Do It Better, and The Past We Leave Behind appeared in April 2015 on 2MR ("Two Mikes Records"), a dance imprint owned by Simonetti, Captured Tracks' Mike Sniper, and Adam Gerrard. Featuring contributions from Lower Dens' Jana Hunter, The Past We Leave Behind won acclaim for its flowing sounds and emotional songwriting. The following February, Pale Blue issued a cover of Big Star's "Thirteen," while the One Last Thing EP, which featured reworkings of the title track and The Past We Leave Behind track "Distance to the Waves," appeared in April 2016 on 2MR. Later in the 2010s and into the 2020s, Simonetti juggled his work as a solo artist and DJ with Pale Blue's output. In April 2017, Me Me Me released "Have You Passed Through the Night," which found Pale Blue taking inspiration from early electro as well as The Thin Red Line and also featured a Pional remix. The duo moved to Damian Lazarus’ tech-house label Crosstown Rebels for February 2018's You Stopped Dying, an EP that brought the influence of My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive to the fore of Pale Blue's music while maintaining its techno underpinnings. Late that year, they contributed a cover of Low's "Just Like Christmas" to a holiday benefit compilation. In November 2019, an extended version of "Have You Passed Through the Night" featuring two previously unreleased songs (including one based on Lord Byron's poem "She Walks in Beauty,") arrived. Pale Blue's music took a more confessional turn with March 2020's Breathe EP. Drawing upon Wight's experience with domestic abuse and her volunteer work at a crisis helpline for its raw acid house explorations, the EP also included remixes by Olive T and Lauren Flax. The duo continued in a similarly emotionally charged vein with that December's "Silver Tears," an 11-minute track that channeled the despair of the COVID-19 global pandemic and the death of Simonetti's father. Delaying the release of their second full-length until the pandemic waned, Pale Blue issued Maria in May 2023 on Crosstown Rebels. Recorded with the synths used on Jaydee's 1993 hit "Plastic Dreams," the album examined the best and worst of love with songs that melded pop structures with techno intensity.
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