Here's a Video from one of our recent shows at the Stork
Filmed By Orlando and Josh of IFYW thanks guys!
Sam Sloane: Vocals & Guitar
Jeff Paul: Drums
Natasha Arens: Bass
Influences
Mogwai, Ride, Joy Division, Straitjacket fits, Bailter Space, The Cure, The Catherine Wheel, Doves, The Bats, My Bloody Valentine, Swervedriver, Yo La Tengo, The Chameleons, Sciflyer etc...
We're currently working our asses off Recording the next Lp and it's going really really well. See you in 2009 with new shows and a fucking rocking new album!!!
VIR’s Shadow of a Mountain blends elements of post-punk and shoegaze to create a glacial, dark and elegant record. Sam Sloane’s mercurial and echo-laden guitar drifts through the record while Natasha Arens and Jeff Paul’s rhythm section build and swell around the escalating tension in Sloane’s vocals.
With the band now based in the SF bay area but with roots in Christchurch, New Zealand, the album contends with a longing for home and a sense of loss despite the idealistic urge for challenge and experience abroad. Drawn to the contradictions and contrasts in the U.S the album contends with a futile attempt and defiant struggle to challenge an insurmountable mountain, as a result, VIR produce an album evocative of the American landscape.
VIR’s music is unashamedly melodic, honest and affecting. The songs are built on an engaging dynamic of fragility, melancholy, ambiance and intensity. Live, the band is uninhibited in communicating songs of love and loss and the fervor with which they play elevates the music to evocative peaks.
- Finally, someone makes this shoegaze revival thing work. Oakland's VIR, formerly called Montana, lays U2-size vocals, melodies, and song structures over sinister, flatline backdrops à la Joy Division. The resulting tension, anchored by singer Sam Sloane's excellent guitar work, creates songs that don't stale.— Nate Seltenrich, East Bay Express
Wonderful show last night! Thank you so much for the new album. If you're free, please come out to Blake's tonight! Hope we can put something together soon. Take care, rob
Thanks Guys - I'm really sorry I arrived late, cuz i heard a lot of good things about your set. We will need to do this again, so keep in touch... Paul
Thanks for befriending thebrotheregg ! When our new neighbors moved in next door they brought us cookies as a way of saying hello. Well, we have brought over the electronic equivalent of cookies, which is in the form of a gift of free music! Please enjoy a free download of the new thebrotheregg 7 song e.p. of outrageous rock.
got plans this saturday? if not, we beseech you to come watch us share the stage with philadelphia's insanely talented PATTERN IS MOVEMENT at the BIKE KITCHEN. seriously, this show is going to be unreal.
that's:
Pattern Is Movement
Parker Street Cinema
Worker Bee
SATURDAY, MARCH 29
7:00pm - 10:00pm
THE BIKE KITCHEN
1256 Mission @ Laskie
oh, p.s. If you guys need a place to stay, just let us know... there's more than enough space here... for practicing, jamming, sleeping, or doing regular people things. you know...
