| Velvet Teen, The / All Is Illusory |
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| Album: | All Is Illusory | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Velvet Teen, The | Added: | Dec 2015 | |
| Label: | Topshelf Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2015-12-20 | Pull Date: | 2016-02-21 |
| Week Ending: | Feb 7 | Jan 31 | Jan 24 | Jan 17 | Jan 10 | Jan 3 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jul 11, 2017: | butterscotch memory Eclipses | 4. | Jan 29, 2016: | Time Traveler The Giving In | |
| 2. | Jan 31, 2017: | satin fever You Were The First | 5. | Jan 25, 2016: | Everything A to Z week 27 Taken Over | |
| 3. | Feb 05, 2016: | A Visit From Drum Eclipses | 6. | Jan 22, 2016: | Time Traveler The Giving In |
| Album Review |
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| DJ Away Reviewed 2015-12-14 | ||
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The first album in nine years from these Santa Rosa legends straddles the band’s previous explorations of hyperkinetic pop and slowcore—quite a range. Anchored by Judah Nagler’s impressively buoyant tenor and Casey Dietz’s superhuman drumming, the band surfs gracefully from pop-punk sugar rushes to melancholy ruminations and back again. The whole thing feels optimistic and triumphant, and deservedly so: it’s a rich, vibrant comeback. FCC WARNING: 8. Favorites: 2, 4, 5, 9, 11. 1. (3:16)—Mid-tempo. Sparkling, ambling, with some complex drum patterns. 2. *(2:47)—Fast. Upbeat, fist-pumping punk. 3. (4:13)—Mid-tempo, bright, relaxed. Vocoder-ed vocals. 4. (4:51)—Mid-tempo, rocking. Hyper synth melody. 5. *(3:53)—Slow, simple piano ballad. Heart-meltingly pretty. 6. *(4:40)—Mid-tempo. Yearning, skyward, spine-tingling, heart-on-sleeve rock. 7. (3:50)—Slow, close to shoegaze in places and sinewy early 90s emo in others. Goes mostly quiet at -0:25. 8. (10:55)—FCC WARNING (f***). Very minimal beginning. Vocals enter two minutes in. Spaced out slowcore jam. 9. *(3:14)—Fast, thrashy, exuberant pop-punk, with blast beat choruses. 10. (5:20)—Mid-tempo, warm, piano-heavy. 11. *(3:18)—Mid-tempo, major key, triumphant, catchy and heavy. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Sonreo | 6. | The Giving In | |||
| 2. | Eclipses | 7. | Church Or State | |||
| 3. | The Manifest | 8. | Taken Over | |||
| 4. | Pecos | 9. | You Were The First | |||
| 5. | All Is Illusory | 10. | The Veil Between | |||
| 11. | Gtra | |||||