Artist description bliss is a psychedelic rock band currently based in Cincy, Oh. Blending elements of Rock, Pop, Blues, Funk, and oldey Country folky good song kinda stuff into a unique psychedelic stew.... it's all about the song...

Music Style Psychedelic Rock n Roll

Musical Influences Beatles, Radiohead, Beck, Pink Floyd, Flaming Lips, Funkadelic, Apples in Stereo, The Verve, RRRock n Rolllll

Similar Artists Beatles, Flaming Lips, Pink Floyd, Neil Young, Spiritualized, Mercury Rev, Ween, Radiohead, Rolling Stones, Apples In Stereo, The Verve, Beck, Portishead

Artist History bliss formed in the end of 1997. Since then, we have played many gigs in the region to spread our sound out to the peoples.. along the way, writing and recording somewhere close to sixty original songs. In the fall of 1999, the band completed their first full-length cd, Sol Music. Recorded entirely by the band members at their home studio, on a very small budget. Sol Music is the result ofa years worth of hard work and love for making music together.

Group Members Jamie Smith: Acoustic & electric guitars, vocals. Jason Cox: Bass, guitars, vocals. Brian Mack: Keyboards, piano, vocals. Jon Williams: Drums, percussion, vocals. Charlie Retzler: Live sound, co-producer

Instruments Guitars, Bass, Keys, Drums, Organ, Piano, Tape effects, Assorted sounds

Albums Sol Music

Press Reviews The Following review of the band's debut full length cd, Sol Music, is from the first April, 2000 edition of Citybeat magazine's "Spill it" column by Mike Breen... Spill It CityBeat's Music News 'Bliss'-ful Debut, One of the cooler new bands Spill It has heard in a while is local Pysch-Rock quintet Bliss. The group's debut release, Sol Music, is one of those little unexpected gems that creeps across this music critic's desk every once and awhile and gives me hope for the new talent in the Cincinnati area. The album - recorded by the band in their home studio `- is chock full of dreamy, lysergic songs that would appeal to fans of the earlier work from neo-pyschedelic purveyors like the Flaming Lips and Spritualized. While the music has that floating, celestial glide, there is a respectable amount of organic grit that gives the band their own identity, and there's an almost rootsy feel to several tracks. The layers of guitar ooze and refreshingly unpredictable dynamics buoy the lilting, echoing melodies, which are well-written and catchy. The band uses psychedelia as a motif, but they still manage to have songs that you'll remember melodically. Where other bands playing this style may easily become too self-indulgent, Bliss have a firm grasp on creative structuring and writing without sacrificing the good of the song.

Location Cincinnati, Ohio - USA

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