Bleached

On the heels of three well-received singles comes Ride Your Heart, the bombastic debut album by LA band Bleached. Sisters Jennifer and Jessie Clavin match their ability to blend a mix of freewheeling ’77 punk with vintage sunny Southern California melodic rock and roll; creating blindingly bright hooks and dark heartfelt lyrics about love, loss, and all the crazy fun moments in between. read more…

On the heels of three well-received singles comes Ride Your Heart, the bombastic debut album by LA band Bleached. Sisters Jennifer and Jessie Clavin match their ability to blend a mix of freewheeling ’77 punk with vintage sunny Southern California melodic rock and roll; creating blindingly bright hooks and dark heartfelt lyrics about love, loss, and all the crazy fun moments in between. That’s the goal: the sugary and sour, repurposed by two aggressively harmonic musicians and songwriters, stepping into a new visceral dimension of sound. Their full length debut epitomizes this movement – gritty, raw, adventurous and frenzied, tossing you out onto the dance floor, hair mussed from make-outs, cigarette still dangling from fingertips.

Raised up deep in the San Fernando Valley, their suburban isolation nurtured a frenzied creativity, as they started making their own music at a young age. Sneaking into punk shows over the hill in Hollywood, they became teenaged underground scene staples at all-ages Downtown DIY venue, The Smell. “Me and Jen were punk kids who weren’t taught how to play instruments,” says Jessie. “We taught ourselves how to play, out in the garage.” Eventually signing to Kill Rock Stars and Post Present Medium, their all-girl punk band Mika Miko drew international acclaim, landing slots on tours with No Age, Black Lips, and The Gossip.

Bleached originally formed when the Clavin sisters resolved to continue working with each other upon the break up of Mika Miko. Plans were postponed when the sisters joined other bands. (Jennifer relocated to New York and toured extensively, and Jessie began to play with various bands in LA.) But in the fleeting moments they found together back home, the songs that became Bleached’s early 7” singles came together. Since Jennifer moved back to her hometown, Bleached now serves as both girls’ chief creative outlet. “I was going crazy being in someone else’s band,” remarked Jennifer. “Me and Jessie are so proud and happy to be able to focus on our own music, together.”

As a whole, the twelve tracks on Ride Your Heart reveal the many facets of Bleached’s music in a delirious vortex of playful harmonies, tangled guitars, and golden noise. Each song brings a new element, while also imbibing the classic moods of bands as varied and iconic in nature as The Ramones and The Cars to The Rolling Stones and Fleetwood Mac. From the syncopated backbeat and two-part chorus of “Dead In Your Head,”, the rolling riffs and sparkling melodies of “Searching Through The Past” and the pulsating energy and urgency of “Dreaming Without You” and “Outta My Mind”, Bleached take you on a sweeping emotional rollercoaster that churns and burns. Ride Your Heart is a thrilling, beating, glorious wall of sound strong enough to withstand its own impact.

Press

“Lead single of their 7" off Art Fag Records which drops 7/17, “Think of You” sounds like The Misfits and says something that sounds small but is actually big: that it’s scary to tell a boy that you love him because it’s hard — probably impossible in the long run — to guarantee that affection is mutual. It does this in less than three minutes, and when it’s over, you immediately want to relearn the lesson” — Fader

“Think of You” is a Strummy heartbreaker that finds them in much less abrasive territory” — Pitchfork

“If you swept up all the vegan muffin crumbs and other detritus from the Smell’s floor, combined it with some sawdust from a dirtbag country bar where Merle Haggard once drunkenly two-stepped, and then threw in some tangy candy bits only found at a little corner store around the way from where Joey Ramone’s grandmother lived, you’d have something like Bleached” — LA Times

“Think Of You,” is bouncy, sunny punk-pop” — Stereogum

“We’ve just found a new band to blast the entire way to the beach… we’re already giving them a prime slot in our summer soundtrack” — Nylon

News

• The L Magazine announces Bleached to play Northside Festival May 22, 2013
• Los Angeles Times features Bleached on Essential Tracks... May 4, 2013
• Now Toronto reviews Bleached show at Silver Dollar Apr 27, 2013
• The Village Voice reviews Bleached's Album Release Show at Bowery Ballroom Apr 24, 2013
• NPR features Bleached on World Cafe Apr 22, 2013
• Washington City Paper interviews Bleached Apr 17, 2013
• In Your Speakers features Bleached's Ride Your Heart Apr 6, 2013
• PopMatters reviews Bleached's Ride Your Heart Apr 3, 2013
• Interview Magazine interviews Bleached Apr 2, 2013
• Consequence of Sound reviews Bleached Ride Your Heart Apr 2, 2013
• Blare Magazine reviews Bleached's new album Ride Your Heart Apr 1, 2013
• Fader streams Bleached new album Ride Your Heart Mar 29, 2013
• The Line of Best Fit reviews Bleached's Ride Your Heart Mar 27, 2013
• Pitchfork features Bleached's new song, "Dead in Your Head" Mar 26, 2013
• Bleached on Time Magazine's Best Bands of SXSW list Mar 18, 2013
• Bleached to play at Spin's 2013 SXSW Party Mar 5, 2013
• Paper Magazine premieres Bleached video for "Next Stop" Feb 28, 2013
• Bleached's "Next Stop" video premiered on Vogue Feb 26, 2013
• Bleached "Next Stop" Premieres on Pitchfork, Announce Album Ride Your Heart Jan 8, 2013
• Bleached premieres new single 'Next Stop' off upcoming album Jan 8, 2013
• Fader streams Bleached new single "Next Stop" Jan 8, 2013
• Bleached new single "Next Stop" off debut album Ride Your Heart Jan 8, 2013
• Bleached featured on SPIN.com regarding their 2013 LP Nov 27, 2012
• Bleached performance in pics from NXNE on Brooklyn Vegan Jun 19, 2012
• Bleached performance photos from NXNE Bruise Cruise on Brooklyn Vegan Jun 19, 2012

Tour Dates

Date	Venue	Location	With	Tickets
Fri 6/7/2013	Jubilee Music Fest	Los Angeles, California,
Thu 6/13/2013	Knitting Factory	New York City, New York	Northside Festival
Sun 6/30/2013	City of Costa Mesa's 60-Year Anniversary	Costa Mesa, California,	Beach Fossils
Sat 7/13/2013	Phono del Sol Festival 2013	San Francisco, California,	Thee Oh Sees, YACHT, Marnie Stern