The Velvet Teen remerges with its first album in nine years.
The Velvet Teen
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Deep Confessions
The New Trust Goes Gloom on New Disc
The New Trust’s latest, Get Vulnerable, is a self-released deep
confession.
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Off with Their ‘Head
The Velvet Teen’s Albatross
Santa Rosa’s the Velvet Teen have an albatross around their neck. Seemingly every review of theirs manages to reference the same band, claiming the two are of the exact same ilk, with the Teen aping more than just a similar-sounding lead singer. And while yes, that band (starts with “radio,” ends with “head”) serves as […]
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Change Is in the Air
The Shifting Sound of the Velvet Teen
THE VELVET TEEN has a sound that is slippery, bound to jump from genre to genre, unchecked by the boundaries of consistency. Over the course of three LPs, the Santa Rosan trio has taken a chameleon-like approach in finding the defining aspects of their sound. While Out of the Fierce Parade (2002) was a haunting, […]