Photo by Steven Perham
Newly formed post-punk duo Vague Lanes have debuted their first four-track EP, succinctly listed as Cassette. Dwelling in the realm of plodding goth and mellowed-out darkwave, the Bay Area music vets embrace thunderous vocals, driving drum machines, and sparse synth ornamentation as a backbone for their dual bass guitar amalgam.
Southpaw bassists both, Mike Cadoo (Gridlock, Bitcrush) and Badger McInnes (Here We Burn, After the Apex) blend early 90s indie and grunge elements as well as spacey synth into the mix, resulting in a unique blend of styles: a dark, sometimes forked tongue underbelly strangely juxtaposed against a playfulness.
Cure comparisons are easy here, as well as the driving simple melancholy of Joy Division (particularly in Nihilist Knot Twist), but New Wave/synthpop elements do creep in at times.
Cassette is also available via your favorite digital music service, well as through the Vague Lanes’ Bandcamp as a limited edition cassette and digital download.
Follow Vague Lines:
The Coiled One, the sophomore release from Los Angeles-based Spahn Ranch, holds a revered spot…
Bleak Recordings is delighted to introduce Gloom, the inaugural EP from Portuguese dark wave band…
We succumb tonight It’s the funeral of hearts This misery will vanish tonight Mekong is…
Non-being of limitation Empty of being, empty abstractions Conditioned by transcendence Extra extrapolations Today, the…
what you don't know what you can't see red cloud is calling stalking watching hypnotizing…
The Joy of Elephant has trampled through our aural garden once again with the project's…