As intrepidly melodic explorers of hope, loss, longing, nostalgia and attraction, Von Venn allow you to simultaneously experience all the aforementioned bitter-sweet sensations with their classic yet modernistically compelling guitar-driven indie singles.
Their latest slick with 80s new wave soul serenade, In Time, unravels as a panoramically rhythmic triumph which pulls you in from the first progression. From there on out, the melodies hold on tight with their ethereally caressive fluidity and refuse to let you go until you reach the slow fadeout, which proves how intrinsically entwined you become with the single, that illustrates the beauty in goodbyes.
With the singer and songwriter Gary Cox fusing his influences from Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, The Blue Nile, John Martyn, and John Lennon, Von Venn leaves nothing to be desired on the atmospheric originality front. The layered guitars against the harmonised vocals resound like a sonic Elysian dream.
In Time was officially released on June 23; hear it on SoundCloud.
Review by Amelia Vandergast