Stream: Blondfire, ‘Age of Innocence’

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Blondfire (Photo by Michelle Shiers)

Blondfire’s first solo single in almost three years is a dancefloor-ready nostalgia attack that longs for the good old days. And if soaring melodies were time machines, we’d be back there before the chorus. But, alas.

The song is titled “Age of Innocence,” and it’s the first in a batch of new music that singer-songwriter Erica Driscoll says she has ready to release this year. Driscoll co-founded Blondfire back in the Bush era with brother Bruce (who has since gone on to make music as one-half of Freedom Fry) and carried on the project as a solo artist. She collaborated with her husband, songwriter-producer Wally Gagel, on this new slice of buoyant electro-pop.

“Can we go back to the beginning?” Driscoll asks in the new single, adding, “I think so many people can relate to the theme of this song. Life can become so complicated between friends, family, lovers. Things inevitably go wrong. Mistakes, misunderstandings … How do we get back to that pure place with each other before all that happened?”

Singing is a good start.

||| Stream: “Age of Innocence”

||| Previously: “Climb,” “Here and Now,” “Domino,” “True Confessions,” “Pleasure” “Where the Kids Are”