I love to please that soft kiss
I hate your ways of giving bliss
I love the noise of perfect lies
The way you hold me in paradise
Fantasma Negra’s latest single, Bliss, hurtles out from Chicago’s culturally rich Little Village, riding a wave of shimmering gloom and exhilarating rhythms. This punchy number conjures a swirling, decadent dancefloor: think deathrock dipped in disco glitter, a glittering gothic bash that’s as much 45 Grave as it is Studio 54.
With Bliss, Fantasma Negra serves up a spirited cocktail, laced with romantic intensity and shadowed by self-aware apprehension. Here is a bold declaration from a band unafraid to revel in goth’s splendid contradictions, where passionate embraces exist side by side with guarded hearts, creating a shimmering twilight party that’ll keep even the gloomiest clubs aglow and agog.
At its core, Bliss tackles the thorny push-pull dynamic between desire and deception. Love becomes a feverish battleground, where sweetness collides fiercely with distrust. The passionate lyrics confront the contradictions embedded within affection, unearthing pleasure amid a web of perfect lies, even as it seeks to protect the vulnerable heart at its center.
Driven by a vigorous and commanding female vocal presence, Fantasma Negra channels a tenebrous howl from the depths of the batcave, steering this nocturnal rollercoaster through bursts of joy and underlying unease. With nimble percussion and spiky guitars evoking shades of Skeleton Family’s spidery melodies and the jittery urgency of Public Image Ltd, Bliss gleefully blasts through a stormy hymn of attraction and ambivalence. And that ’80s style guitar solo. Whoa!
In short, it rocks.
Listen to Bliss below:
Fantasma Negra openly embraces experimentation, digging deep into post-punk’s fertile ground to reveal startling, danceable hybrids. As the third taste of their forthcoming July EP, aptly titled Lust, Bliss neatly encapsulates their ambitious spirit, layering seductive hooks over moody undertones that evoke a time when the lines of punk, goth, and rock blended beautifully in shades of darkness.
Listen to Bliss below and order the single here.
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