Pale Blue

The project of producer Mike Simonetti and vocalist Elizabeth Wight, Pale Blue inventively combines transporting electronic music with moving songwriting. With Wight's multi-octave voice and Simonetti's shape-shifting productions as their constants, they're as confident fusing techno, ambient, and house with noise, drone, and dream pop as they are covering Big Star or Bruce Springsteen, or writing songs inspired by Lord Byron's poetry or domestic abuse. Pale Blue introduced their dreamily cathartic chemistry with 2015's debut album The Past We Leave Behind, then expanded on it with EPs including 2018's shoegaze-tinged You Stopped Dying and 2020's Breathe and Silver Tears, a pair of releases that showcased their ability to confront -- and release -- suffering through dance music. On the kinetic love songs of 2023's Maria, Pale Blue borrowed from pop and classic rock song structures and album sequencing, proving their mix of innovation and emotion was as vital as ever.