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First released in 2011, "Veronica Falls" introduced a band with a deceptively simple proposition: take the sweetness, immediacy and melodic rush of classic pop and indie pop, then let something darker seep through the cracks. Across twelve songs, the London quartet of Roxanne Clifford, James Hoare, Marion Herbain and Patrick Doyle fused chiming guitars, ragged rhythms and beautifully intertwined vocals with songs about ghosts, doomed romance, death and dread. The result was an album that could sound euphoric and unsettling in the same breath, repeatedly finding light and darkness occupying the same space. It is music that invites you in with it's melodies before revealing it's shadows.The album remains a concise document of a band at a particularly distinctive moment: steeped in the lineage of The Velvet Underground, Beat Happening, Galaxie 500, Felt and 1960s pop, but with it's own wonderfully skewed take on their influences. Veronica Falls would go on to release a second album, "Waiting for Something to Happen," in 2013, before the members pursued separate musical paths and Patrick sadly passed in 2018.Now, fifteen years on, "Veronica Falls" returns as a reminder of just how potent that original formula was: beautiful, bruised, and instantly memorable. The anniversary reissue includes a bonus disc gathering nine recordings from the same period. Side C brings together five cover versions: the Rolling Stones' "Under My Thumb", Slumber Party's "Sooner Or Later", The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band's "Eighteen Is Over the Hill", Eurythmics' "Thorn in My Side" and The Verlaines' "Joed Out". Side D collects four B-sides from the band's early singles, rounding out a collection that reflects both the breadth of their influences and the distinctive sensibility that ran through their work.

Tracklist:

  1. Found Love in a Graveyard
  2. Right Side of My Brain
  3. The Fountain
  4. Misery
  5. Bad Feeling
  6. Stephen
  7. Beachy Head
  8. All Eyes on You
  9. The Box
  10. Wedding Day
  11. Veronica Falls
  12. Come on Over
  13. Come on Over (Demo)
  14. Under My Thumb
  15. Sooner or Later
  16. Eighteen Is Over the Hill
  17. Thorn in My Side
  18. Joed Out
  19. Starry Eyes
  20. Staying Here
  21. Back Page
  22. Killing Time

UPC: 5061102610479
Label: Slumberland Records
Release Date: 12.4.26
Format: Vinyl

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    First released in 2011, "Veronica Falls" introduced a band with a deceptively simple proposition: take the sweetness, immediacy and melodic rush of classic pop and indie pop, then let something darker seep through the cracks. Across twelve songs, the London quartet of Roxanne Clifford, James Hoare, Marion Herbain and Patrick Doyle fused chiming guitars, ragged rhythms and beautifully intertwined vocals with songs about ghosts, doomed romance, death and dread. The result was an album that could sound euphoric and unsettling in the same breath, repeatedly finding light and darkness occupying the same space. It is music that invites you in with it's melodies before revealing it's shadows.The album remains a concise document of a band at a particularly distinctive moment: steeped in the lineage of The Velvet Underground, Beat Happening, Galaxie 500, Felt and 1960s pop, but with it's own wonderfully skewed take on their influences. Veronica Falls would go on to release a second album, "Waiting for Something to Happen," in 2013, before the members pursued separate musical paths and Patrick sadly passed in 2018.Now, fifteen years on, "Veronica Falls" returns as a reminder of just how potent that original formula was: beautiful, bruised, and instantly memorable. The anniversary reissue includes a bonus disc gathering nine recordings from the same period. Side C brings together five cover versions: the Rolling Stones' "Under My Thumb", Slumber Party's "Sooner Or Later", The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band's "Eighteen Is Over the Hill", Eurythmics' "Thorn in My Side" and The Verlaines' "Joed Out". Side D collects four B-sides from the band's early singles, rounding out a collection that reflects both the breadth of their influences and the distinctive sensibility that ran through their work.

    Tracklist:

    1. Found Love in a Graveyard
    2. Right Side of My Brain
    3. The Fountain
    4. Misery
    5. Bad Feeling
    6. Stephen
    7. Beachy Head
    8. All Eyes on You
    9. The Box
    10. Wedding Day
    11. Veronica Falls
    12. Come on Over
    13. Come on Over (Demo)
    14. Under My Thumb
    15. Sooner or Later
    16. Eighteen Is Over the Hill
    17. Thorn in My Side
    18. Joed Out
    19. Starry Eyes
    20. Staying Here
    21. Back Page
    22. Killing Time

    UPC: 5061102610479
    Label: Slumberland Records
    Release Date: 12.4.26
    Format: Vinyl

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