Velour Academy began as a two-piece consisting of the Los Angeles musicians Jamil Kassimali (bass, guitar, pulsar synth, songwriting) and Shannon Martinez (vocals, songwriting). These days, they’ve added Matt Calderon to play drums, Itzel Palacios handles keys and backing vocals, and Justin Hall provides more guitar to add a bit more muscle to their glorious punk template. <\/p>\n
\u201cPulsar\u201d starts the listen with buzzing synth that brings us right back to the \u201980s, before thumping drums enter as Shannon and Itzel trade off vocals amid the post-punk spirit. \u201cDSPRNGGIRL\u201d then follows with warm guitar to complement the soft vocal harmonies of the more pop-punk fueled display, and \u201cUnetta\u201d continues with throbbing bass in the gritty-yet-pretty climate.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll Alone\u201d and \u201cMetro\u201d exit Side A, where the former is a bit more cautious as pop ideas are appreciated, and the latter sounds right at home in the \u201990s punk-lite scene with its charming melodies and dreamy nature.<\/p>\n
The back half is equally interesting, and leads with the thick bass and cozy, textured singing of \u201cSomething About Your Eyes,\u201d while \u201cMacrifoam\u201d is a bit darker in its approach, but no less enticing thanks to the crisp drums, chunky bass, well-timed keys and hypnotic singing.<\/p>\n
Close to the end, the very quick \u201cA Gentle Breeze\u201d is a bit rugged but also quite sweet, and \u201cDemons\u201d exits the listen in a haze of gentle singing that’s introspective and even a bit mysterious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":34572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10767],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-46419","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-velour-academy","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46419","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\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46419"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}