The new album, “Love Letters & Suicide Notes,” released on Future Wax Records witnesses Blaney moving away from his recent Acoustic Punk phase, and back to a fuller sound of a band, but is more likely just a richer spectrum of Blaney’s own personality. I ended up writing a bunch of songs about a girl I loved, who then left me, which pretty quickly changed the tone of, well, everything, but especially the songs.” “The band name, Dead Blonde Girlfriend, originally was a coping mechanism that turned into something more for a relationship gone wrong- the kind of stupid things guys, and maybe especially band guys, say to each other, about a relationship that imploded, probably because of me. It’s me and me only, trying to work out all these conflicting artistic personality traits.” “I never really played under my real name before the last record,” Blaney says thoughtfully, “but it’s always been under the one umbrella… me, and I don’t think there will be any other incantations, although who knows what might happen next.
“I started as Joie Dead Blonde Girlfriend, years ago, then it was Dead Blonde Girlfriend when the band came together, then it was just me when I moved to California.”red “It’s schizophrenic marketing” Blaney laughs. Joie Blaney, once the leader of NYC’s Dead Blonde Girlfriend, now celebrated Los Angeles solo artist, has morphed, again, into Dead Blonde Girlfriend. It’s like a Hitchcock film come to life, or something.
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