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Out 16 October 2026 via Venin Sound

Still in the Mirror is the second official single from Bliss Venin, expanding the cinematic world first introduced through her instrumental debut, Drawn to Distance.

For the first time, Bliss has a voice.

Rather than a conventional sung performance, she speaks in an intimate, seductive whisper, close enough to feel as though she is sitting beside the listener. Her words arrive in fragments, like thoughts caught between radio frequencies:

“I found your voice
between two stations
It said nothing
I turned it up anyway”

The music moves with the same restraint. At its centre is the unmistakable sound of a Gretsch White Falcon, played by composer and producer Zed Parish. Brushed chords dissolve into expansive trails of delay and reverb, while a dark, modal guitar figure gives the track an unfamiliar, almost ritual pull.

A brooding double bass follows the guitar’s movement beneath the surface, anchored by a minimal frame-drum pulse and sparse hand percussion. Nothing is hurried. Each note is given space to linger, recede and return.

The result feels like a nocturnal desert road movie compressed into sound. Heat hangs over an empty highway; voices drift between stations; something left behind remains visible in the mirror, smaller but never entirely gone.

Where Drawn to Distance captured the still moment before a journey begins, Still in the Mirror puts that journey in motion. The road stretches forward, but the song remains preoccupied with what follows behind, exploring memory, distance and the things that refuse to disappear completely.

Bliss Venin has previously existed as a mythic figure glimpsed through dust storms, motel windows and mirror reflections. On Still in the Mirror, she finally speaks, quietly, intimately and close enough to feel dangerous.

Release Date: 16 October 2026
Artist: Bliss Venin
Producer/Composer: Zed Parish
Label: Venin Sound
Genre: Alternative, Dark Americana, Dream-pop, Ambient Rock, Spoken Word, Cinematic
Pre-save: Bliss Venin – Still in the Mirror
Contact: Contact Bliss Venin

Out 1 August 2025 via Venin Sound

Drawn to Distance marks the official debut of Bliss Venin, a cinematic band fronted by a mythic figure who lives between sound, silence, and story.

This slow-burning instrumental blends ghostly Gretsch guitar chords with shimmering piano and vintage drum machines, fusing dream-pop, noir Americana, and ambient film score.

At the emotional heart of the track is the unmistakable tone of a Gretsch White Falcon guitar, known for its bold, atmospheric presence. Played by composer and producer Zed Parish, its sound haunts the edges of the song, colouring the silence like a lost memory. The track began life as a minimal guitar sketch, but as the arrangement unfolded, a fragile piano line took centre stage, a shimmering motif that reshaped the emotional arc completely.

Parish describes it as:

“A transmission from somewhere else, like Morse code drifting through desert air.”

Beneath it all, the rhythm flows from classic Roland 808 and 909 drum machines, a deliberate choice that injects an electronic feel into an otherwise analogue track. Drawn to Distance is less a traditional song and more a threshold, the still moment before a journey begins. Spacious and intimate, it paints a world of fading headlights, empty roads, and solitary reflection.

Bliss Venin herself exists between myth and motion, a femme fatale glimpsed through dust storms, motel windows, and mirror reflections.

With Drawn to Distance, she doesn’t explain, she arrives.

Release Date: 1 August 2025
Artist: Bliss Venin
Producer/Composer: Zed Parish
Label: Venin Sound
Genre: Electronica, Dream-pop, Ambient Rock, Cinematic
Streaming: Spotify – Drawn to Distance 
Contact: Contact Bliss Venin