Happy release day to Blind Seagull for their new album Personal Decay flies out today! After releasing tapes and limited edition EPs for quite a few years, the trio from Kaliningrad has finally taken up the challenge of a proper full-length (previous recordings were seven or eight tracks at best) and has created twelve new songs that shine a light on the impressive skills of this young combo to deliver very classic and yet extremely fresh and modern cold post-punk gems. Keeping it short and sweet, their two, three minutes long compositions cut right to the chase of the darkwave soul: stomping drum machines, frozen guitar arpeggios, tense bass riffs. The formula is occasionally rocked by the intervention of laser synths, noise raids and gothic chorale, while the industrial pièce of the title-track and the IDM-tinged collaboration with Xiu Xiu show how this band stands out and Personal Decay is the best proof of this. ORDER LP / DIGITAL