Beautiful Debris

BEAUTIFUL DEBRIS

Blair 1523 was founded in 1989 and broke up in 1992. They released an EP called On the Rise on a small English label, Wilde Club Records, so Blair 1523 might have dropped from sight altogether had they not caught the attention of Greg Shaw. Their Voxx Records release Beautiful Debris came out on LP and CD in 1993.

Allmusic has a glowing 4½-star review of Beautiful Debris, as written by Ned Raggett: “It’s a fun and accurate album title, Beautiful Debris, collecting the quite wonderful and indeed more often than not sweetly beautiful output of Blair 1523. . . . Compiling both the EP and unreleased tracks, it makes a solid case for Blair 1523 as underrated modern psych gods, mixing a fun kick-up-your-heels rave-up sense – ‘Swell’ is particularly great on this level – with some drone feedback zone-outs to good effect.”

(September 2013)