The amazing debut by this American outfit! Although social networking sites gives us the opportunity to discover an unbelievable number of new bands, it also increases the number of new artists that we “absolutely must hear”, only to find them to be average or worse. All in the contrary with San Francisco’s VEIL VEIL VANISH: By the second track on their debut it’s clear that this is no flybynight, onehit wonder, but a capable and devoted band that just needs the right attention to break through.

 

Veil Veil Vanish seem to have discovered a formula for striking the perfect balance between these competing demands, for there seems to be no other explanation for the fantastic quality of their debut. The fivepiece move between song-writing styles with a certain ease that never seems flat; Kevin Tocon’s voice displays hints of Robert Smiths or Paul Banks but inhabits a unique space of ist own. Somehow, the album manages to move between the poles of melancholy, energy, and accessability, forming a synergy which is perhaps what truly defines the soontobe classic nature of „Change in the Neon Light“.