Veronica Falls

Welcome to the slanted and enchanted world of Veronica Falls, where serendipity, subversion, providence, and a shared love for Roky Erickson's worldview all have a crucial part to play. The quartet of Roxanne Clifford, Patrick Doyle, James Hoare and Marion Herbain was initially formed in London two years ago.They ended up in a friend's studio in Hoxton, where free downtime enabled them to develop songs at their leisure. From then on, the four undoubtedly had a charmed existence. It is this lucky streak which also saw them being snapped up by Mike Sniper, the head of revered New York label Captured Tracks, a scant 10 minutes after they put their MySpace page up. The recording of their debut album began as a "doomed residency at a studio in Yorkshire" where they locked themselves away for two weeks in deepest, darkest winter with little contact with the outside world, before scrapping the sessions entirely to re-record the songs in 3 days in London. A series of live shows through Europe and the US followed. With their debut album, released in October 2011 through Bella Union / Cooperative Music, Veronica Falls have crafted a brilliantly concise, superbly concentrated hit of spiky, marvellously contagious indie pop with a twist. Fans may already be familiar with the bona fide indie anthem "The Box" and the galloping Dick Dale meets Nico surf rocker "Beachy Head" or the romantic melancholy love hymne "Found Love in a Graveyard". These are songs which will lodge themselves in your head as well as your heart, with style and attitude to burn.

Links

http://www.veronicafalls.com

http://www.myspace.com/veronicafallshard