Big Bliss is a Brooklyn-by-way-of-Ohio post-punk band that formed mid-2015. Drummer Cory and guitarist/vocalist Tim Race had successful bands of their own prior to teaming up with bassist and vocalist Wallace May to create Keep Near, a starkly beautiful and melancholy EP reminiscent of The Cure or even more recently The National. While we’re sure their former bands miss them, we’re so glad they decided to form Big Bliss. 

Keep Near is a glistening, energetic continuation of what Robert Smith so eloquently popularized in the late 1970s. It is modern yet nostalgic, a wonderful example of post-punk that will have you excited about the genre again.

— Annalise Domenighini, Noisey

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