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NRVS LVRS – ” Lost To The Max “

Posted: October 28, 2017 in MUSIC
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San Franciscan, dark-synth duo NRVS LVRS with their blend of 1980’s guitar-pop and brutal, minimalist electronica. The band recently released their excellent sophomore album, “Electric Dread”, and have this week shared the video to the track, Lost To The Max.

Lost To The Max brings Bethan Fernandez’s, effortless, soaring vocals to the fore, Beneath the stunning vocal exists a twitching palette of glitchy Fever Ray like beats and pulsatingly, gloomy synths. It’s not the soundtrack to Blade Runner 2049, but it really should be. The accompanying video is superb; working with director Lauren Tabak, the film taps into the songs feelings of the alienation and victimisation of women. As the chorus of female characters come together to sing en-masse, “I have always been a target”, the video builds to a justifiably vengeful finale. Stirring and inspiring.

The song is a haunting examination of such devastating and historic abuses suffered by women. The subject matter is heavy here but there aren’t many vocalists that can get such daunting subject matters out in beautiful dark pop as Fernandez. It’s possible this is her best performance. Which is an impressive feat considering the band’s stellar catalog

NRVS LVRS – ” The Golden West “

Posted: January 2, 2016 in MUSIC
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“The Golden West” was the debut album by San Francisco band NRVS LVRS, a simultaneous love letter and warning shot to their home city of San Francisco. It was a record that quietly mourned the slow strangulation of a city in the grips of gentrification, rent crisis and artistic decline.

According to their press release, NRVS LVRS spin a dreamscape of internal narratives that envelops exactly what it means to live in San Francisco. But their new video for “2 Young 2 Know,” premiering below, also captures exactly what it means to be young and reckless universally. Following two women drinking in graveyards, flashing cars, and snogging, it’s basically a compilation of all the best moments of your life in three minutes through a Harmony Korine lens.

Taken from their debut full-length The Golden West, released on Breakup Records, “2 Young 2 Know” is a snapshot of the emotional place between starry-eyed hope and late-night anxiety. Landing somewhere between Tears for Fears and My Bloody Valentine, NRVS LVRS have taken the particular days when your responsibility-free teenage years begin to creep into existential crisis and turned them into magic.

It’s one of the strongest lyrical records of the year, and luckily they had the tunes to match it; Black Diamonds was a jangling blast of Indie-Pop, 2YOUNG2KNOW recalled the tear-stained danceability of Stars, whilst Cordoba Grey was The Human League grabbing Ladytron’s hand and taking them on a perfectly harmonised killing spree. The stand out moment though was the stunning title track, “The Golden West”, the sound of a melancholic Flaming Lips, heartbroken by the site of tech-migrants who, “don’t care about this town, they only heard there’s gold out west.” A chillingly beautiful record.

 

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NRVS LVRS are:

A. Gomez
Bevin Lee
Wendy Brents
Charles Belvedere
Rye In The Sky
Aaron Hazen

Additional noise by:

Dylan Donkin
Patrick Brown
Sean Paulson