Weekly mp3 #118: Veux - Late Key

One of the members of Veux has a record label and has put this up for free on the label site. Good on him. You can stream first too.

More psychedelic swirling stuff, bit like Asura a few weeks back. Somewhere in here is a pop song, with some guitar and a guy singing, but it's all diffuse and mooshed like a tape that's got wrong. When the beat's there it's quite a thumping anchor for the track - that 'When Dove's Cry' / 'Don't Cha' rhythm that seems to survive fine without a bassline. But, yeah, that gets periodically swept away too.

Just for a bit of novelty, Veux is TWO producers, but living in different cities so you can pretend they're two instances of solitary producers co-existing. :P The half that runs the record label releases stuff as matthewdavid (I might post one of his solo numbers later, it's pretty fine) and the other half releases as Dog Bite.

If you like this, explore the rest of the Leaving Records site for more odd bits.

This kind of track, and probably a fair chunk of what I've been listening to in the past 6 months, reminds me a lot of what the shoegazers were up to in the early 90s. It may not sound the same, but the guts of what's happening is some fairly simple songs are buried in a mess of sound.

The least charitable interpretation of the approach is that it's some kind of obfuscation (song a bit shit? no one will know...), the most charitable would be something like challenging the listener through hinting at the traditional elements but not giving away enough to make for easy listening.

Both views have some merit and seem pretty ridiculous, to me.

Anyway, good times...