A Few Words from Soft Blue Shimmer about Heaven Inches Away
Gossamer light and romantically fleeting, warm and familiarly inviting, like a recurring dream you welcome back into your head whenever you can – Heaven Inches Away is the freshman full length from Los Angeles, CA dreamers Soft Blue Shimmer. It’s a short and sweet nine track LP that will please passive alternative rock fans and the most stern of shoegazing loyalists alike. Lyrically unpretentious, but poignant, undeniably pleasant, and open to interpretation — the half hour of bliss follows in wake of the band’s 2020 debut Nothing Happens Here EP like a fantasy, building an entire universe of emotion in the span of mere minutes.
Looking back today from Heaven Inches Away’s first anniversary, it is apparent that the young band has already found the secret formula. The record marks the trio’s second release written with their core lineup of Kenzo Cardenas, Meredith Ramond, and Charlie Crowley, engineered by Corey Coffman, and released through independent labels Disposable America and Galaxy Train.
Wormbrain World had the chance to ask Soft Blue Shimmer’s collective wit to say a few words about the record, each of the songs on it, and the record labels that helped them to share it with the world. Here is what they said:
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W.W: Heaven Inches Away
SBS: A collection of feelings.
W.W: 1. Space Heater
SBS: Simultaneously warm & cold.
W.W: 2. Emerald Bells
SBS: Ribbon, emerald, bell, stamp.
W.W: 3. Chihiro
SBS: Burdens of desire.
W.W: 4. Sunpools
SBS: Fabric woven in two.
W.W: 5. Cherry-Cola Abyss
SBS: Delighted, broken, quiet, blissful.
W.W: 6. Hold You In The Warm
SBS: In memory of my friend’s smile.
W.W: 7. Musubi
SBS: Spam is good, war is hell.
W.W: 8. Waves At Dume
SBS: Standing in a wind tunnel.
W.W: 9. Adore The Distance
SBS: A quick flash of bright.
W.W: Galaxy Train
SBS: The fucking coolest.
W.W: Disposable America
SBS: A permanent community.
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Photo by Lupe Bustos.
“Delighted, broken, quiet, blissful.”
W.W: What is Wormbrain?
SBS: Little worm holes in my head.
W.W: Thank you for sharing with Wormbrain.
Soft Blue Shimmer’s Heaven Inches Away is available physically and streaming everywhere now through independent labels Disposable America and Galaxy Train.
