WALKING BOMBS: IDIOTEQ Streams Blessings Bestrewn Part 1 With Guests From Chrome Waves, Geezer, Cycle Sluts From Hell, Globelamp, Gridfailure, And More; Album To Be Released This Friday

June 17, 2025 Infrared Magazine Interviews, Music News, News, Press Releases 0

Blessings Bestrewn Part 1, the first in a two-part album sequence by California-based WALKING BOMBS, is now streaming exclusively at IDIOTEQ alongside a track-by-track breakdown of the record ahead of its release this Friday.

WALKING BOMBS is the prolific collaborator magnet/solo project of vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Morgan Y. Evans. Blessings Bestrewn Part 1 arrives in the projectâs busiest year to date, yet stands out among the recent rash of mixtapes, EPs, and singles as a more orchestrated and complex project. The record was largely recorded in upstate New York in 2022 prior to Evansâ relocation to California, after which it was slowly refined and completed over many months.

A bi-coastal effort that took three years to complete, Blessings Bestrewn Part 1 is the first part of a double album, color coded into two parts like Guns N’ Roses famed Use Your Illusion era. This album sees Evans performing electric and acoustic guitars/basses, trombone, and lead vocals. The record also features a wide cast of collaborators including members/alumni of Book Of Wyrms, Gridfailure, Shadow Witch, Globelamp, Chrome Waves, Cycle Sluts From Hell, Geezer, Stormland, Black Mesa, The Alchemy Unit, and more.

Blessings Bestrewn Part 1 was co-produced by Ash Umhey and Morgan Y. Evans, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Umhey at his Orange Sound in Rhinebeck, New York, and completed with cover art by Elizabeth “Lizzie” Gomez Dapena and Morgan Y. Evans. The guest contributorsâ recordings were handled by the respective artists, and random DIY/unorthodox recording tactics were used.

“This album was a huge endeavor and I couldn’t have done it without many friends, but especially my collaborator and engineer Ash Umhey,” says Morgan Y. Evans. “Ash is one of my oldest chums since back in the famed Joyous Lake Woodstock, New York bygone â90s era and no matter what idea I threw at him he gave it his all. During the course of this record, I moved across the country, had one of my sister’s pass away, and had many misadventures. Blessings Bestrewn feels like a bridge between East to West for me and a reminder to be glad for the candles and good moments along the way.”