Blestian, which gave Tampa Bay a lot of new music in 2018. Credit: Facebook/Blestian

Blestian, which gave Tampa Bay a lot of new music in 2018. Credit: Facebook/Blestian

Blestian After releasing its So Far Gone full length in 2017, St. Petersburg electro-pop duo Blestian ripped convention apart by releasing its Left Out LP over the summer and following it up by no less than seven singles that beautifully captured the group’s relentless devotion to making pure art and sharing it with everyone smart enough to listen. Hear the latest below and check out all of it on Bandcamp.

Scroll through a slideshow of 2018's best Tampa Bay music releases or see and sample all of them here. Call your local record store to see if it is carrying the release.

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Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...