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Veda
Posted by Rob Ortenzi on 13-Oct-05 @ 04:49 PM
HQ: Kansas City, MO
NOW PLAYING: The Weight Of An Empty Room (SECOND NATURE; secondnaturerecordings.com) THE STORY SO FAR: Forming in May of 2004, self-releasing their own EP (This Broken City), and gigging relentlessly with bands as diverse as Murder By Death, mewithoutYou, Thrice and the Get Up Kids, Veda soon caught the interest of Second Nature Recordings, who’re releasing the band’s debut album, The Weight Of An Empty Room, later this month. After that, singer Kristen May says, it’s a good thing they were finally able to afford that tour van. “We’re looking to do whatever we can to get people to hear [us],” she says. “We just want to play music.” WHY YOU SHOULD KNOW ’EM: If Veda’s sublime, emotionally resonant, post-shoegazer melodicism isn’t enough to hook you, you’ve gotta love any band who can justify their own existence with a literary reference. “In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book The Beautiful And The Damned, one character says, “Art is meaningless,’” May explains. “Another disagrees. Then another nails it in my point of view: The character Maury says, “Art in itself is meaningless. It isn’t in that it tries to make life less so.” Hopefully, our music means something to someone. If not, well it means everything to us.” —Aaron Burgess YOU LIKE? YOU’LL LIKE: Denali / Eisley / 27 |
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