Pastel Blank with Nora Kelly Band

Disco-tinged post-punk grooves meet pop songwriting. Pastel Blank turns modern anxiety into danceable catharsis.

Pastel Blank revolves around the songs and voice of songwriter Angus Watt. It is brought to life by an ever-shifting cast of musicians and recurring collaborators from Montréal, Vancouver, and Victoria, and exists somewhere between a “solo” project and a band.

Experimentation is cloaked in pop-minded song structure: the sheen and gloss of a disco ball glints off the edges of sharp, angular post-punk sensibilities. The groove is a morse code stutter; there is funkiness, but it is tempered by a wide-eyed nervousness, as if the songs themselves aren’t sure what will happen next. The result is a warped fun house mirror of referentialism: a collage of sounds that are at once familiar and yet also slightly alien in their combination.

Pastel Blank offers an opportunity for catharsis: today’s anxieties become tonight’s

reason to dance. 

With support Nora Kelly Band