Blurry Love Letters gives you plenty of the Blurry straight out of the gate. The other two words don't seem to matter too much, as it turns out Blurry is good.
At first sounds like musique concrete, and music embedded in concrete, as everything is muffled and distant, in a hauntological sense. Think stuff like The Caretaker - but instead of slowed down ballroom music we get snatches and snippets of drums, guitar, and other unidentifiable noises. The short track lengths give it collage effect, and the washed out reverby style makes it sound like you're listening to a loud speaker from a few rooms over - while the actual listener skips tracks once they've got the general idea.
From “Angel” onwards, things start to become a bit clearer, leaning further into a shoegaze/post-rock sound, with driving rhythms and some nice riffs, even if this, again, is cut a bit short. You get the impression these songs are sketches of a fleeting moment, some uplifting while some are more melancholy, but most have a ghostly, transient feel. “Belonging” soars in with some heavier guitars, but just as they arrive they’re washed away by the next few tracks. “Hope to Forget You” feels like the main event, with a sudden glitch bridging the drums and riffs with the ambient and eerie.
By the end, when you realise you’ve been on a ride of soaring highs and sombre lows, maybe those other words in the album title work pretty dang well after all.