WL//WH Track Of The Day VELORA
After last year’s intriguing promo EP significantly titled “Demonstration”, the Miami, Florida-based young 5-piece unit, made of Kalimah Richardson (guitar, vocals), Steven Osuna (bass), Nestor Gutierrez (guitar), Billy Joe Hernandez (guitar) and Cristina Ameller (drums), although amid the fury of Hurricane Milton have found a way to drop a more structured, both vibrant and immersive first single, “Cellar Door”, rich in darker atmospheric magnetism, through a quiet and loud pervasive fusion of 90s shoegaze, and alternative rock with a dash of post-rock.
Seven visceral minutes of an emotional roller coaster ride on the edge between heaven and hell through the agony and ecstasy carved by shapeshifting doomy guitar textures and drifting tragic ethereal vocals, immersed in indissoluble ghostly shadows, densely pervaded by introspective boundless melancholy, seemingly devoid of way out.
Dreamy filigrees of faintly shimmering strummed guitars flicker over lost sullen vocal reflections, stirred up by stumbling drum beats, to shift into agonizing, almost euphoric, pain-filled cries, falling through a tumultuous droning vortex of crushing guitar distortion, despaired jolts and excruciating high-pitched wails, fading out to disintegration.
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