The Fat Angel Sings

It’s hard not to love a bookish band with a name that references both Virginia Woolf and her lover, Vita Sackville-West. So it follows that Philadelphia duo Vita and the Woolf would have a serious fan club, including M83 .

Jennifer Pague’s full-bodied voice inspires frequent comparisons to Florence Welch, but it’s truly its own animal, yelping and blooming over her keyboard melodies and the dynamic drumming of Adam Shumski. On “Super Ranger,” the track that we are premiering today, the band struts its stuff with swerving synth-and-drum melodies that almost defy genre (electro soul? soulful pop?). It’s a tantalizing taste of their forthcoming album, Tunnels, which is out on June 16th.

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Vita and the Woolf – I remember sitting at my desk this June as a friend played me Vita and the Woolf’s single “Mary” for the first time. We stopped what we were doing, crowded around the laptop speakers and listened until its rapturous four minutes and 15 seconds were up. Frontwoman and pianist Jennifer Pague has a commanding voice and a knack for writing music that pulls you in. It’s soulful, its rocks out with abandon, it explores arty avenues as well as anthemic arenas. “Fang Song”, Vita and the Woolf’s debut, was a DIY recording project of Pague’s as she wrote a cycle of songs inspired by the romance between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sack-ville West. It’s lo-fi, but it shimmers. With the formation of a live band featuring Bobby Cleveland on bass and synth and Adam Shumski on drums,

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