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
Joy Division, Straitjacket fits, Bailter Space, The Cure, High Dependency Unit, Doves, The Bats, Loop, My Bloody Valentine, Yo La Tengo, Sciflyer etc...
Flying Nunned is our free Monthly Dj set at the House of Shields is a Tribute to Flying Nun records and Kiwi music. 1st Friday of every month. House of Shields, 39 New Montgomery st, SF.
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
What do i has to do to get you to play Jrrsy. i'z all the way on the other coast, yet your music still penetrates my eardrums often. GOD BLESS THE SHOEGAZERZ!!!
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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
