New Single “Trance–Like Turn” Out Now On Green Owl Comp.Click Here To Listen To “Trance-Like Turn” & Two Songs from their Single
Click Here To Download Debut Single “Violent Sensation Descends”
Violens are thrilled to announce summer tour dates with indie rock faves Grizzly Bear, and 2008 break out band MGMT. Following the release of singer/producer Jorge Elbrecht's remix of their single "Time to Pretend", MGMT asked Violens to join them on dates between a busy schedule of summer festivals. The band will then join Grizzly Bear as sole support on their shows between dates with Radiohead. Additional dates with each package will be announced shortly.
Violens recently released their critically acclaimed new single "Trance-Like Turn" on The Green Owl Records Comp: A Benefit for the Energy Action Coalition. Their contribution is featured among tracks by other notable artists such as Feist, Muse, Deerhoof, Bloc Party, A Place To Bury Strangers, and many more. 100% of profits from the album sales will be donated to the EAC, to support their efforts to raise environmental awareness in our community. http://greenowlrecords.com/comp.php
The band was recently named one of 8 bands to watch in 2008 by The L Magazine. Follow the link below to their feature, alongside Brooklyn's High Places: http://thelmagazine.com/6/11/feature/feature4.cfm?ctype=1
Violens (pronounced "vy-lenz") are a New York-via-Miami four-piece formed in the fall of 2007, featuring members Iddo Arad (synths/vocals), Ben Brantley (bass), Jorge Elbrecht (lead vocals/guitar) and Kris King (drums). Their music imagines a place where The Zombies & The Byrds meet Wire & The Violent Femmes, and Crass meets Angelo Badalamenti & Prefab Sprout. Violens songs conjure descriptions of nightmares, the passing of time, speculations on spiritual messages, and accounts of psychedelic hallucinations. Even their most frenetic guitar work and aggressive rhythms are draped in a gauze of reverberant, harmonized vocals and synths which create a sense of creepy, artificial comfort. A fitting characterization, lyrically and musically, for a group whose name sounds like a melding of the words "violence" and "violins".
Mercury Lounge
Thursday June 5th
$10/21+
Doors @ 7pm
7:30 Prjoect Jenny, Project Jan
8:30 Chairlift
9:30 Violens
10:30 Mixel Pixel (Record Release)
US Summer Dates
July 25 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church w/MGMT
August 11-Washington DC @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue w/Grizzly Bear
August 14- Boston, MA @ Museum of Fine Arts w/Grizzly Bear
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