Bleed Electric
Let The Invasion Begin
New York City-based art collective Bleed Electric continues their rebirth with the release of their EP, Let The Invasion Begin. Its arrival occurs precisely thirteen years after its original release, following the mysterious removal of all their music from digital platforms more than a decade ago.
Founding member and architect of Bleed Electric, MUG5 explains…
“Let The Invasion Begin announces the arrival of the Bleed Electric sound at full force. Prophetic, surgical, and beautifully dangerous, the EP captures an art collective operating with absolute intent, delivering music that is catchy, melodic, and unmistakably other. Conceived as an invasion of the airwaves, the EP draws from Bleed Electric’s fascination with extra-terrestrial mythology and apocalyptic imagery. It imagines an external force arriving not through chaos, but through precision, control, and inevitability.”
Let The Invasion Begin is the second of Bleed Electric’s reverse-ordered releases. The first, released in October of last year, was This Is My Masterpiece. Bleed Electric decided to resurrect their catalog inversely, utilizing the “completion backwards” principle.
Talking about themselves, Bleed Electric says…
“We are not a band. We are an experiment, a prophecy, a cinematic vision. Every song is a fragment of a larger story. Every release, a transmission from a future envisioned long before its moment. We don’t follow trends; we carve them into the fabric of what comes next. We don’t chase relevance; we embody it. We call our sound ‘Future Fresh.’ And the future is now.”
The EP begins with “Trinity,” a song inspired by the biblical Book of Revelation and the trinitarian concept of God. Blending elements of alt-rock, nu-metal, and rap-rock, the track is vaguely reminiscent of Linkin Park, with its juxtaposition of luminous and darker melodic layers.
Highlights on the EP include “Gravity,” which intertwines R&B surfaces with hints of pop. Rap-lite vocals, backed by softly glowing harmonies, infuse the tune with a delicious balladic motion.
“Boost Your 1s” takes hip-hop and injects it with teetering flavors of EDM, resulting in an overt clash of genres that, although experimental, works well. Similarly, “Cherry Bomb” merges pop, EDM, and dirge-like, psychedelic textures into a galvanizing, pushing track, brimming with buoyant dynamics that shift and scale back on the outro.
A personal favorite and perhaps the best track on the recording, “Eight Years Late For Dinner” concludes the EP. The song reveals motifs of transposition, time warp, and an imbalanced feeling of self, leaving listeners adrift in a surreal state of consciousness. According to Bleed Electric, the song was inspired by the cult film Flight of the Navigator.
With Let The Invasion Begin, Bleed Electric serves up a superb leftfield electronic fusion of melodic textures that’s more than worthwhile.
