Music

Veronica Falls

Melanie McGovern | Thursday 2 December, 2010 21:39

Veronica Falls are a retro sounding four-piece band from Glasgow. Their old-school, lo-fi vibes can be put down to influences such as The Velvet Underground, whom the band claim are one of a selection of artists who bind Veronica Falls sounds and styles together, other names they drop including Felt and Beat Happening. Tracks like ‘Beachy Head’ give the feel of a watered down (though by that I mean more stripped down, and not lacking in quality) version of the Violent Femmes, with a nod to the English landscape marking them as our own breed of pop punk. In terms of genre, don’t call them “twee”; it doesn’t mean what it used to, having been bandied about to the point of meaninglessness; but, that said, ‘Starry Eyes’ is decidedly light-hearted, carefree pop, with lyrics like “I wish that I could reach out and touch you”. ‘Staying Here’ is the kind of sentimental boy/girl harmonising and alternating that makes us question their goth-punk billing. The album, Right Side of My Brain, is released at the end of the month, available on their website merely by signing up to the mailing list. After the success of macabre titled single ‘Found Love in a Graveyard’ earlier this year, they’re headed for good/dark things…

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