Violens - Acid Reign

New York’s Violens (pronounced ‘vy-lenz’) announce their highly anticipated debut album ‘Amoral’, due in September.
The first single ‘Acid Reign’ will be released as a limited edition 7” on July 26th through the band’s own imprint Static Recital. B-side ‘Space Around the Feel Station’ features Washed Out and is exclusive to the 7”. Violens’ sound has evolved immensely since the release of their self-titled EP in late 2008. Tracks like “Already Over” and “Doomed” featured a mix of sun-soaked harmonies alongside 60s psychedelia and polished 80’s new wave that acknowledged influences from The Zombies to Prefab Sprout. The meticulously layered production of ‘Acid Reign’ fits synthetic piano leads and frenzied, percussive guitars over acrobatic bass lines and apparitional harmonies. The sounds are pushed through coarse-grain distortion, delay, and reverb evoking image trails and rising smoke. Singer Jorge Elbrecht’s somnambulant phrases "I can tell that face you've shown is full / you're always standing on bullets of sentiment" give way to more conscious ones, lines that seem to question whether lyrical content can "cut across” and mean anything at all. Also known for his work with art collective Lansing-Dreiden, songwriter/producer Elbrecht showed off his lighter side on a collaboration with Caroline Polachek of Chairlift when the pair recorded their own duet synced to Justin Bieber’s video for ‘Never Let You Go’. As Pitchfork describes, “it looks like Justin Bieber is singing Polachek and Elbrecht’s Italo-disco jam, making for a video that’s equal parts awesome-surrounding and surreal.”

TRACKLISTING

A: Acid Reign
B: Space Around the Feel Station (feat. Washed Out)

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