Chuck Blazevic’s laptop and Alice Hansen’s voice work are equals, playing off each other to create haunted caverns of sound, melody and meditation. What separates You’ll Never Get to Heaven‘s hypnotic LP crackle from that of City Center or High Places is the music’s impulsive pacing tracks that never feel complete. For some, this may be the duo’s downfall, but fans of slow evolution electronics will have no trouble easing into the foggy world of You’ll Never Get to Heaven. The band’s dreampop sound is memorably captured on its debut outing, Adorn, a six-song EP issued in cassette form by Blazevic and Hansen on their own Mystic Roses imprint (a vinyl edition is forthcoming on another label). The opener, “Caught in Time, So Far Away,” effectively establishes the group’s sound in embedding Hansen’s bright vocal (a delivery that understandably might invite comparison to Julee Cruise’s) within a hazy dreampop mix of vinyl crackle, synthesizers, bass, and drums. This is an unofficial music video with footage of the 1969 film The erotic three, edited by David Dean Burkhart.
