In March, Venice Is Sinking released their latest record, AZAR. While Sorry About the Flowers got a few hundred spins at GorjusHQ, this one’s the real deal—a marked leap from their prior work. It’s a quiet, delicate, but filling indie rock baklava coated in sticky melodies and crunchy hooks. There’s the feeling that while all this is very serious, as far as music goes, nobody’s taking it so seriously—that rare band that seems to be enjoying themselves and the rich, swirling music they create.
You don’t see a lot of bands willing to make fun of themselves—let alone copping to be an “unsuccessful band” that desires GROUPIES DRUGS CA$H—but that sense of humor lightens the heavier tones sloshed around by the band on the four “AZAR” instrumentals. Not “slosh” like Sabbath or Jesus & Mary Chain, but like that gentle sway you get sometimes walking back from the bar after a long night, holding a pint glass full of Guinness, with a bit of froth rolling down and getting just the top of your hand wet. That kind of slosh.
WOXY has a great live set by the band over at the Futurist, and you can grab a copy of “Okay” below—now available as a five-song maxisingle on iTunes.
Download: Venice is Sinking “Okay.”
Holy crap, man. That’s amazing!