I had a feeling we were going back to the \u201960s with this debut album from the Los Angeles outfit Velvet Starlings; that colorful artwork just oozes with psychedelia, groovy ideas and plenty of summery melodies. Turns out I was only partly right, cause there’s a whole lot more going on in this superb and timeless record. <\/p>\n
\u201cShe Said (She Said)\u201d opens the listen with moody organ before abruptly shifting into speedy, fuzzed-out garage rock that sounds both retro and modern in its rowdy delivery. \u201cCheckmate\u201d follows and bounces and shakes with a bit of alt-rock spirit as the thumping drums and thick guitar make it unclear if you should head for the dance floor or the mosh pit.<\/p>\n
Moving towards the middle, the nostalgic keys and firm jangle of \u201cCan\u2019t Control\u201d builds into a loud anthemic rocker, while \u201cThere’s Nobody There\u201d recruits plenty of breezy psychedelia in the tuneful and crisp vintage rock. \u201cNo Regrets,\u201d one of the album’s best, then lands in \u201960s territory with a Brit-rock influence that’s busy but meticulous.<\/p>\n
The title track arrives near the end, and is full of fluid guitar playing, drumming acrobatics and plenty of indie-rock moments mixed into the raw but very tuneful delivery, and \u201cTurn It On\u201d exits the listen with superb organ playing and enough fuzz to make J. Mascis jealous.<\/p>\n
Amazingly, Velvet Starlings is spearheaded by 18-year-old Christian Gisborne (Foster Poling plays drums live, and Hudson Poling handles bass), who tracked all the instruments, engineered, produced and mixed these 10 incredible songs. Imagine The Beatles and The Byrds on steroids and growing up on ’90s alt-rock and you get some idea of how crucial this is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":34662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10805],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-46517","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-velvet-starlings","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46517","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=46517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46517"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}