Raleigh, North Carolina pioneering shoegazers The Veldt have premiered their new single ‘Angel Heart’.
The track features on their upcoming album ‘Illuminated 1989‘, the original 1989 Robin Guthrie- produced recording of what was supposed to be their debut full-length record (before their label Capitol Records shelved these recordings).
In 1988, ‘Angel Heart’ was written for the original ‘Marigolds’ album sessions and when the band was originally sent back to the drawing table to record the ‘Marigolds’ album that was ultimately released, it was not included in the tracks recorded with Lincoln Fong in 1993.
Among first-wave shoegaze bands formed in the 1980s, North Carolina’s The Veldt surrounds identical twins Daniel Chavis (vocals, guitar) and Danny Chavis (guitar), whose music is equally influenced by Cocteau Twins, Marvin Gaye, Sun Ra and Pharaoh Sanders. Referencing post-punk while embracing modern hip-hop, these trailblazers work with transient dreamscapes as fluidly as solid song structures.
Danny Chavis interprets ‘Angel Heart’ as follows: “The stellar sound you get when you see the universe expanding. When you feel hopelessness and melancholy and, of course, alone, there’s always a meandering feeling of something that lifts you up and brings you down. We feel it as we get older, but were not alone. This is that sound.”
‘Illuminated 1989’, is out on November 24 via Little Cloud Records / 5BC Records. Pre-order it here.
Tracklist:
- Aurora Borealis
- C.C.C.P
- It’s Over
- Shallow By Shallow
- Pleasure Toy
- Angel Heart
- Willow Tree
- Git Up
- Heather
- Daisy Chain
- The Everlasting Gobstopper
Photo Credit: Alice Teeple
