New Music: Envyes – Blessings

Envyes isn’t the first musical project of Baltimore, Maryland based musician Ryan Knight, which might explain how Blessings manages to be both bedroom pop, but also quite experimental.

Taking much of its sonic palette from shoegaze and dreampop, Blessings is rather light in tone initially, but soon brings also something unexpected into play. The shift in tone and texture comes from percussion and spoken word clips that add a subtle but noticeable contrast, a hint of sadness and longing among the reverie, one that’s hard to shake off long after the song has finished.  

He says about the track, which was co-written with Alicia Knight, “Blessings is a reflection on being so lost in life that you take for granted the beauty and moments around you. It’s a song about navigating the highs and lows, finding meaning in the chaos, and rediscovering what truly matters.”

He adds about the accompanying clip, which perfectly matches the drifting, lo-fi feel of the song, “[It comprises] footage filmed at the Baltimore Zoo and a small, serene cemetery at the corner of Ridge Rd and Falls Rd in Hunt Valley… shot entirely on a vintage Canon ES6500V HI-8 film camera with various lenses.”

Learn more about Envyes and Blessings, which can be downloaded on Bandcamp, by checking out the band on Instagram and TikTok.