A band that are surly destined to set the genre ablaze!
author: Judas Kiss Magazine
Written by Lee Powell
Following hot on the heals of their excellent self-released, self-titled introductory CD the Vessels turn with their debut official release in the shape of the stunning double A side ‘Yuki/Forever the Optimist’.
Starting with ‘Yuki’ you instantly know you’re listening to something special. Accompanied initially be a lone piano is the low droney almost Tom Yorke styled vocals that captivate you almost instantly. The bittersweet melancholy that emanates from the amalgamation of piano and vocals is darkly haunting yet delicately uplifting. Setting a mood and intensity that is complexly sharp whist at the same time being invitingly isolated. These contradictory teams only help seal in the emotive power and aural descriptiveness that ‘Yuki’ demonstrates almost straight away. With the delicate infusion of immensely subtle glitched electronica ala Efterklang the depth and atmosphere the track projects slowly starts to build however with the inclusion of
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the melancholy of Sigur Ros
author: New-Noise
There’s the melancholy of Sigur Ros in the layered piano that whispers along like it's been played on a remote island and the sound is just drifting into earshot. Beguiling with multiple uses of bleeps and weird effects switches, it gives it an icy feel but also one that you can snuggle up warm to.
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‘Yuki/Forever the Optimist’ embodies a winning openness of vivid character that
author: Tasty
A soporific, floating piano melody peeks through, peeling away layers note by note, chord by chord, to reveal ranks and echelons of crevasses, weaving in and out of a soothing and seraphic musical density. Instrumentals build and breakdown embrace one another with fluid correspondence, seamless and effortless. ‘Yuki’ unfolds to flood the sonic space with heavy-hearted distance and pulsates with flourishing spirit. This atmospheric dreamscape glides with whimsical cloud-like features, with instrumental peaks and bellows with modest vocals, seemingly batting gently behind veils of void. I can never confidently clear the precise wording, the works of guitarist/vocalist/keyboardist Tom Evans and guitarist/vocalist/keyboards/producer Lee J. Malcolm match the musical vibrations, contributing to what develops like a pristine and intricate mechanical operation, but still benignly organic and satisfyingly triumphant.
In charge of drums/beats, Tim Mitchell’s work genuinely shines in ‘Forev
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This single really delivers the goods.This is accessible, exciting music
author: Whisperin' & Hollerin'
Now that a full generation of young musicians has absorbed the beauty and scale of Montreal, Iceland and outlying parts of Scotland, Chicago and Texas, there’s a scramble on to make epic guitar music into something that can stir a response from an excited, wider and wiser music audience. Contenders are multiplying but it’s only very recently that I’ve been convinced. iLIKETRAiNS for one have successfully managed the appropriation to make their new history folksongs into something fresh and exciting.
And here are VESSELS, with more rock in their roots, but with the same yearning for something more nourishing, dynamic and euphoric. Their first demo EP was very promising. This single really delivers the goods.
”Yuki” is a modestly brief four minutes 42. It’s built around a three bar piano phrase of considerable beauty. The development glances over a shoulder at post-OK Computer RADIOHEAD, with some aching vocal, a glitchy ruffle or two in the rhythm track and some very careful, ver
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