Azar Swan - And Blow Us a Kiss

Azar Swan - And Blow Us a Kiss2014 release, the second full length album by Brooklyn two piece Azar Swan. Formerly the core members of Religious to Damn, Zohra Atash and Joshua Strawn changed gears in 2012, turning their multi member, organic chamber ensemble into a drum machine minded, electro centric duo. The shift was sparked by the realization that coordinating multiple musicians often slowed the writing and performing process, and by a mutual revived interest in electronic

'Leather Jackets'

For the band's 10th anniversary

wearing it's emotions very clearly on it's sleeves

Before the bands evolution into the "Slam" genre

Standouts include such melodic originals as "I'll Be on My Way

" Mariah's 27th top ten hit

its sparse arrangement giving Sam Bentley’s vocal room to ache and hover

effortlessly straddles multiple musical genres with a series of deeply personal and thoroughly global songs that cut to the emotional core and tap into a powerful social consciousness: a self-portrait everyone can see if they look in the right mirror

Band Apart released a mesmerizing

The club became a modern-day Mecca for rock fans

a song written for his future wife

a heavy atmospheric ballad which is sidestepped by "Brighter than the Sun"