Like a lot of other bands, The Orange Velvets should be grateful for the effects of reverb for helping them create interesting songs from unexceptional songwriting. While there are whole genres that hold reverb sacrosanct as a tool to create beautifully weird worlds, lush with strange noises, Velvets, on the other hand, have a sound almost devoid of any production or ambitious vision.<\/p>\n
Velvets have no aspiration to create unimaginably florid sounds from white noise. The short garage-pop songs of this band have an undeniably \u201860s retro feel. The one guitar, one drum, and no bass lineup of the band sounds primitive and grimy. However, there are no nasty guitar riffs of yesteryear. In fact, the band doesn\u2019t even have the spunk of The Kinks or the killer instincts of The Stooges or the badass attitude of The Ramones. <\/p>\n
The music of The Velvets is actually much more cultured than it would seem from their stripped-down unsophisticated songs. The rawness of the jarring guitar sound is snubbed in favor of heavy reverb, which does add some plushness to the music. The outstanding drumming more than compensates for the otherwise weak rhythm section. Its deft pounding is softened by the album\u2019s ubiquitous reverb effects, which adds some class to it. However, it takes away from the depth of the instrumentation. And due to a total absence of any denseness in the music, the guitars not only sound less menacing, but also less alluring. The music picks up a slight nib of urban indie from the lack of punch or recklessness in the vocals, the music, or the lyrics.<\/p>\n
But the band isn\u2019t entirely play-it-safe either. The relaxed and totally dry vocals of singer Jesse Lurie infuses some amount of brashness into the songs that gives them the rough \u201860s street-cred that goes a long way in giving Fuzz, Beautiful Fuzz <\/i>an attitude, and the band isn\u2019t threatened to look completely like a bunch of hipsters. <\/p>\n
However, all the reverb of Fuzz, Beautiful Fuzz <\/i>would be flat and seemingly boring if not for the vocals of Lurie\u2019s female sidekick Erin Cory (now a former band member). When she is the lead vocalist of a song, her naturally sweet and vibrant vocals give lift to the music and hold the various bleary reverbed parts together. And when providing backup vocals, her \u201cdoo-doos\u201d and \u201cdaa-daas\u201d give the music an adorable Beach Boys flair, adding a \u201860s psychedelic dimension.<\/p>\n
On Fuzz, Beautiful Fuzz<\/i>, <\/i>the words \u201cfun\u201d and \u201cretro\u201d gleam together like a newly married couple. The band\u2019s confidence and attitude in their music, despite not even so much as even making a faint attempt to try out something new, is somehow sexy. And this sexiness is captivating in an otherwise imperfect record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":30217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[8523],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-41866","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-orange-velvets","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41866"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41866"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}