Vinyl Floor release new LP
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Danish rock band Vinyl Floor deliver one of the most audaciously primeval rock albums of the 2010s in the stunning Apogee, a ten track lo-fi masterpiece that the rock n’ roll world has been waiting for in the wake of electronic music’s newfound chart domination. Vinyl Floor have made a big name for themselves as a band that is willing to try anything, and their previous work has been referred to by some as post-alternative and even symphonic indie rock. Apogee is a portrait of a band that has exhausted the arena sized sound and is ready to get back to basics.
I’ve been a big Vinyl Floor supporter for years, but this is representative of a stylistic quantum leap for the band. It’s merely ironic that this is their most authentically raw recording yet, as some of the most impactful watershed releases in the history of rock music have tended to be. Vinyl Floor is teaching millennials a lesson with Apogee; you don’t need a lot of technologically advanced accents to make music that is larger than life. You just need a couple of European amplifiers, a whole lot of distortion and an appreciation for rich textures that transcend stereo speakers.
Apogee is the edgiest, most rigidly organic album that I’ve listened to all year, but it’s hardly inaccessible as a result. In fact, because of its uncured nature it actually feels more intimate and real than anything else on the FM dial at the moment. No one else is recording in analogue and making it feel as physical as if it were in full blown high definition, and what’s more is that Vinyl Floor isn’t even having to be deceptive about the way that they’re composing these songs. Everything is exposed and made available to the audience, which stands in stark contrast to their closest rivals’ most recent material.
Vinyl Floor’s sound profile is one part psychedelia, one part punk (primarily its blue collar ethics) and another part Delta blues band in the same tradition as Muddy Waters. The combination makes for a very intoxicating cocktail that is hard to put down once you pick it up, and Apogee is the perfect culmination of all their influences rolled into an epic swan song and then distributed evenly among ten tracks. As a fan, this isn’t just the album that I was wishing for, it’s the album that I always knew they were capable of making.
If you weren’t already planning on it, I would make a point of securing a copy of Apogee as soon as it drops at the end of September. It’s a historically good album for this particular era of rock music, and moreover it’s a fine way to celebrate the end of the 2010s and the beginning of the 2020s, which by all indications presented to critics today will be a time of renewed interest in the foundation of rock’s inspired sound. Vinyl Floor are ready for the future, the only question remaining is whether or not the rest of the world will be able to keep up with them or not.
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Mindy McCall