Nostalgic Psychedelia by Blanket Approval

Hanna Kantor

“Heartbreak City” the second single from US newcomers Blanket Approval, drips with fuzz and bittersweet grandeur. Blending psychedelic tones with garage rock grit, the band crafts a track that lives somewhere between a shoegaze-drenched breakup and the glimmering memory of what came before.

With a nod to early Tame Impala and a dash of Parquet Courts’ disaffected cool, Blanket Approval finds poetry in ruin and pop sensibility in chaos. “Heartbreak City” is both the crash and the quiet aftermath.