Another Record Store Day is in the books, and as in years past around the consumer-driven "holiday" I often try to share something I purchased from a previous RSD weekend, especially if it's a release containing exclusive music.
The Veldt aren't an entity I've delved into on this site (save for maybe a past Mystery Monday) but not counting a prolonged stretch of time when they were put to pasture in the aughts, they've actually been in existence since the mid-80s. Never commercially embraced, the Raleigh, NC combo consisting primarily of brothers/founders
Daniel and
Danny Chavis, The Veldt's brand of surreal, shoegaze-adjacent rock has benefited from the incorporation of myriad elements ranging from soul to psych. Briefly signed to Mercury in the early/mid-90s, The Veldt's 1994 debut,
Afrodisiac had a way of persuading reverb/delay-tactic appreciating types like myself, and captured the hearts and ears of dream-pop aficionados internationally, albeit the band's legion of fans was always humble, as most of their career was spent recording for under-the-radar indie labels. During the peak of their visibility in the '90s they opened for the likes of the Pixies and Cocteau Twins in the States among others.
The Veldt resurfaced nationally roughly two decades later and were responsible for a spate of eps and singles, including the vinyl-only 2021 RSD exclusive ep I'm sharing today, said to have been limited to 250 copies as a benefit for the Winston-Salem based Shalom Project. Despite the near-three decade gap since Afrodisiac and the preceding 1992 Marigolds ep, "Color Of Love Is Blue" and "Calvary" exude many of the dense, distortion-prone tendencies of their earlier records...and then some. Elsewhere, "Reverie" traverses into trip-hop terrain, while "The Gattaca Blues" finagles with a downtempo drum and bass motif. 2022 saw the release of their first full length of the twentieth-century, Entropy is the Mainline to God.
01. Color Of Love Is Blue
02. The Gattaca Blues
03. Reverie
04. Calvary
05. The Butcher (Acoustic Paris 06)
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