Debut album by Bristol band, The Blessing who have stormed onto the music scene, taking riffs and rhythms from rock and dance music and artfully welding them onto fearsomely inventive improvisation.

This is the debut album by Bristol based post-jazz rockers The Blessing. Formed by drummer Clive Deamer and bassist Jim Barr of '90s trip-hop superstars Portishead, The Blessing are storming onto the scene, taking riffs and rhythms from rock and dance music and artfully welding them onto fearsomely inventive improvisation. With trumpeter Pete Judge and saxophonist Jake McMurchie (“Where has he been?” Evening Standard) completing the line up, The Blessing's catchy, rocking tunes and snappy arrangements create a genre-bending blend of sounds that is all their own.

Their new approach has much in common with the current crop of trailblazers - bands such as EST, Polar Bear and Acoustic Ladyland - and draws from influences as diverse as the Kings of Leon, Morphine, Elvis Costello and Albert Ayler.