Boston Rock Photos And Stuff
Oh! Hello, Velah. So happy to have you back. What with your waves of delay and enchanting melodies, you were truly missed.
I had been looking forward to this one for a while. Velah, The Deep North, The Susan Constant and The Field Effect together at The Middle East Downstairs? That’s a pretty darn good bill. Velah got things going with songs old, new and re-imagined. I think their delay drenched crescendos are still reverberating through the former bowling alley.
Here’s a hauntingly stark rendition of one of my favorites from Velah’s Black Olympia EP. Gorgeous.
Pics from the show can be found here.
Velah performed as a three-piece at the Future Carnivores album release show. This stripped down configuration drew out some of the different layers in their music. Really cool stuff.
Velah closed out the first night of this year’s Rumble. I continue to be impressed with their high-wire act. Somehow they remain on the tightrope, balanced between the atmospheric and the immediate. They’ve got the songs. They’ve got the sound. Impressive stuff.
Rumble Preliminary Night #1:
The Okay Win
Cancer Killing Gemini
The New Highway Hymnal (Winner)
Velah
Velah’s siren songs are calling under the dim red lights at Radio. You’re taken in by their enchanting melodies and rhythmic patterns before the churning guitars envelop you. Velah have the sea at their command. You are immersed.
While some bands take years to settle into their sound, Velah seem to have emerged with a fully formed musical identity. Will they evolve over time? That’s an exciting inevitability for a unit that is so in tune with each other.
The sound reverberates for a moment within the walls of TT’s before being absorbed by the mass of people huddled before the stage. Can they feel it? The sound? The moment?
This is a celebration for the release of Static Of The God’s new EP, The Midnight Fires. There are a full range of emotions on display tonight. There is certainly the mutual appreciation between band and audience, but there’s something heavy in the air, as well. It all comes out in the performance. Music as therapy. A weight lifted. Beat beat beat.
