Lost Velvet makes music that is a portal to other worlds. They unlock doors to places where time hangs heavy and the years move slowly, somewhere that feels more like a dreamscape than reality —a blend of half-forgotten memories and half-remembered places. It is a place not of this world, and neither is their music.
They are brilliant texturalists, blending shoegazing finesse and alt-rock power, dream-pop escapism and dark cinematic beauty, through which Melissa Morris seems merely to breathe her vocals rather than deliver them in the conventional sense.
The word haunting is one of those much overused by scribblers like me, but such a word is perfect for “Make It Alright,” and indeed the band in general. Even when the dynamic weight is increased and the song drifts out of chiming minimalism into the realms of alt-rock art, there is still a sense of the frightening, the harder-hitting sonic assault that we now find ourselves in, turning tension perhaps into terror.
As always, the music is gossamer and gorgeous, heavy and harmonious, as required, and the clever thing about the way Lost Velvet works is that, because little seems clear—the vocals obscured and below the sonic surface, the guitars coiled and beguiling—it requires the listener to meet it half way, leaning in and looking for its hidden depths. If you are prepared to do that, the rewards are both obvious and endless.
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