VELDT will break your heart; they will show you a monochrome world of unrequited love, urban paranoia, of longing and regret, and tantalising glimpses of hope....
Like Ennio Morricone scoring a James Bond theme, VELDT are a sharkskin suited gang; purveyors of dark, punch-drunk film-noir 60's grooves with a sub-Portishead veneer. Bits and pieces of The Divine Comedy, Scott Walker and early Pulp jostle for attention but never dominate one another or threaten to make the music sound derivative in any way. Carefully understated samples and trickling ambient keyboards merge beautifully with succulent and fluidic guitar chords, but it's the empathic and expressive cello work that cements together their structure, giving their songs a timeless and monumental feel.
Formed in Brighton 2003, VELDT consists of Lloyd Wadey on vocals, James Waterland on guitar, and Mike Alexander on cello & keyboards. This three-piece create a textured, cinematic sound; moulding songs that have so much astonishing passion and lovelorn madness that anyone with a heart cannot fail to be moved. It's music borne of frustration, of yearning, but ultimately hope. A vocalist with a honeyed, silky, broken-hearted voice delivers honest and insightful lyrics, all presented in a package of symphonic, melancholic, paranoid, self-indulgent grandeur, impossibly sentimental to the point of breathtaking soulfulness. Giving it everything they've got with love, care and attention to detail, VELDT are nothing short of art.
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