Eight songs from a band I have never heard before listening to "Asymmetry Set". It's strange because when I hear a band for the first time, from a label I'm not really familiar with, I'm not sure what to expect ever. But I never, ever expect this. A band this good, I figure I would have heard of them on my own by now.
The simplest way to catagorize would be as "screamo", an easy way to pigeonhole them, or to give them some of indie rock label with some screaming. Reminiscent of bands like the now defunct Four Hundred Years and the currently going strong (and loved by me a lot) the Ghost, Bright Calm Blue has all those sorts of elements that if you liked the aforementioned bands you'll definitely like them. But at the same time, they deliver their own approach so as not to just be a rip off of Four Hundred Years or the Ghost. They're something along those lines, but not exactly the same.
Songs like "Share the Blame" and "My Fictions" stand out to me, but being only eight songs, I find it easy to listen to all these songs in a row at many different times.
Some of the best lyrics come out of "A Tongue to Taste": "What are we really saying when we speak so easily? What are we really saying when we speak so secretly? It's just a dialogue of nothing. We speak in code like a new disease".
Where bands like the Ghost turn some parts of songs into more melody and the such, Bright Calm Blue makes up for it with screaming and a brutual assault of treble. Bands like Four Hundred Years have been made legendary for spawning such a style as this, but clearly, in the new millenium, bands like Bright Calm Blue will help revolutionize it and make you forget all about its predicecors.