3/30/2023 0 Comments Space punks key![]() ![]() ![]() Recorded in London at Snap Studios with James Trevascus (Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Billy Nomates), all ten tracks surge with lush sounds and clear intentions - and the magic of an acoustic guitar once owned by Kate Bush, given to her by Tears for Fears (who, legend has it, wrote ‘Everybody Wants to Rule the World’ on it).īetween the four bandmates - lead singer and guitarist Vager, guitarist Reuben Bloxham, drummer Marc Nolte and bassist Isabele Wallace - this is the most confident they’ve ever felt in RVG. dynamic and vital post-punk" The Guardianīloxham, Nolte, and Wallace are flawlessly adept in bringing Vager’s songwriting to life. If you think I’m strange, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. ‘Nothing Really Changes’ is a keys-heavy new wave-ish thing, while closer ‘Tropic of Cancer’ sparkles with Vager’s self-assured new manifesto: I know what I’m like, and I know how I get. ‘Brain Worms’ tells the all-too-familiar story of a person falling down the internet rabbit hole and finding comfort in conspiracies. ![]() ‘Tambourine’ is the only Covid song Vager wrote when “trying not to write Covid songs”, and it’s a painfully honest portrait of grieving mid-isolation. Here, though, those lyrics feel so much less resigned to yearning, and so much more defiant and joyous. Vager’s voice is unfiltered and commanding as ever when delivering her clever, not-quite-ironic lyrics. Album opener ‘Common Ground’ sets the tone for what’s to come a shiny, thrilling, punch of an album, with all the beloved RVG hallmarks. Brain Worms is RVG’s fullest, most pristine album yet.Īll throughout Brain Worms, it’s apparent that this is a band in very fine form. A pivotal record for contemporary times bright, free, adamant, optimistic. ![]()
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