New EP "Into A New Mausoleum" is now available! CD available in stores at Ameba Music (Upper Haight SF/ Hollywood) and Streetlight Records (Castro, SF/Bascom, SJ)
Track Listing
1. What Will You Say Tonight
2. Reproach
3. Midnight In The Rue Jules Verne
4. Into A New Mausoleum
5. Shadows Dripping Like Honey Kissing
6. All Hands In Prayer
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Bio:
Veil Veil Vanish is a San Francisco based 4-piece that brings dark, post-punk energy, shoegaze atmospherics, and modern indie aesthetics into the current era of pop music.
Featuring ex-members of
Andalusia
,
Astral
&
Jada
Morning, Veil Veil Vanish began in January of 2006 and has since played venues throughout the US, with bands such as 1990's (UK), Celebration, Midnight Movies, and Bellmer Dolls to name a few. Veil Veil Vanish has also toured the West Coast including a January 2008 tour with New York’s Apollo Heights.
In March of 2007 Veil Veil Vanish completed a southwest tour in support of their debut, self-released EP titled, “Into a New Mausoleum, which combines dark, blissed out atmospherics, danceable drums and high-rise choruses turning these alluring soundscapes into seductive pop gems.
Veil Veil Vanish has also been receiving support from legendary Bay Area radio station Live 105 including being a featured band at their Summer Concert Series in 2007, as well as being picked in the top 5 to be in the running to play music festivals Not So Silent Night and BFD featuring headliners such as The Killers, Bloc Party, and Interpol. The song 'Shadows Dripping Like Honey Kissing' from the new EP has also been featured on Live 105's new music show, Soundcheck.
This year Veil Veil Vanish has been selected to play the San Francisco music festival Noise Pop 2008 with A Place to Bury Strangers and Holy Fuck. Veil Veil Vanish will contribute a song to the Cure tribute album ‘Perfect as Cats’ to be released this fall on Manimal Vinyl Records, and is currently finishing new material for a fall release.
Press:
"Recently, the band completed their first southwest tour in support of their debut self-released EP, entitled “Into a new Mausoleum.” The EP, which has been described as a “seductive pop gem,” has already stirred the airwaves with its dance beats and high-rise choruses, and as one critic described “contains more musical anguish than The Cure.” - Zero Magazine
"What the Cure's Pornography would have sounded like if Neil Halstead (Slowdive) and Kevin Shields (My Bloody Valentine) were on guitars. In other words, Veil Veil Vanish successfully blend their strong post-punk sensibilities with a love for shoegaze soundscapes all interwoven into a cloudy & forboding atmosphere that brings a new edge to existential ennui." - Post-Punk.com
"There is a great desolation in Veil Veil Vanish, and what small glow does manage to pierce the gloom is sunless, more like the nimbus of a total eclipse than any kind of rational daylight." - West Coast Performer Magazine
”Veil Veil Vanish’s debut EP is a salient discharge of swirling, kinetic atmospheres punctured by deep bass lines and urgent, brusque guitars that brush against soft backdrops, threatening to tear them all down. Steeped in the darker corners of ’80s post-punk adherents, Veil Veil Vanish build brilliantly fevered songs that seduce with their lush, damaged anti-pop fixations." - Exclaim! Canadas Music Authority
"Into a New Mausoleum shows Veil Veil Vanish to be in thrall to the guitar sounds of the 80s underground. The San Francisco quartet has the vaguely gothic psychedelia of the Cure, Echo & the Bunnymen and the Chameleons down on these six tunes. Swirling guitars and Keven Tocon’s angst-ridden tenor dominate “What Will You Say Tonight” and “Shadows Dripping Like Honey Kissing,” while “All Hands in Prayer” dives deeply into the shoegazer/dream pop ocean." - High Bias
what a night of magik coming for us all! a room filled with this much enchantment may threaten to tear the blinkers from the slumbering minds of humankind,, Apropos of sleep , that sinister adventure of all our nights, we may say that men go to bed daily with an audacity that would be incomprehensible if we did not know that is is the result of ignorance of the danger.. (rimbaud) ming vauze and sleepmask
