Bridal Veil - Morpho
BRIDAL VEIL RELEASES MARVELOUS ‘MORPHO’
Bridal Veil released their debut EP, Morpho, not long ago. Essentially, Morpho is grand ‘90s-inspired dream-pop.
Bridal Veil
Bridal Veil is a shoegaze/dream-pop band from Portland, Oregon. Formed in 2017, the band consists of Emily Overstreet (electric guitar, vocals), Joel Swensen (bass), and Jordan Richter (guitar). Drummer on the EP is Kevin Robinson.
The EP was produced and mixed by Jordan Richter, the band's lead guitarist. Recorded at Room 13 Studios in Portland, according to the band, “This music is intended to be an indulgence. It is candy before dinner, skinny dipping at dusk, whoops-I-fell-in-love kind of music.”
There are six-tracks on the EP; first up is “You’re In Trouble Now,” which opens on a lightly strumming guitar flowing into a powerful rhythmic pulse provided by a deep fat bassline and tight crunching drums. The harmonic flow, both alluring and beguiling, as well as hypnotic, travels on creamy undulations of deliciously almost-gossamer textures.
Overstreet’s voice mounts and whirls with fulsome hues, imbuing the lyrics with Icarian-washes of color.
Overstreet’s voice, surely one of the best around, glows with cashmere tonal frissons, infusing the lyrics with tantalizing and elusive surface timbres. I’ll say it again: one of the best voices around, velvety, crystalline, a wonderful instrument of expression, akin to a seraphic Stevie Nicks.
“Feast” rumbles and surges with bright metallic guitars exuding hints of new wave coloration, pulsing, shimmering, and pushing atop a potent flooding rhythm. “You Keep Calling” rides glittering guitars accompanied by powerful percussion. When the guitars ramp up to a grainy wall-of-sound, the tune takes on shades of symphonic metal flavors.
“Chasing” discharges industrial-Goth energy, as Overstreet’s voice assumes an urgent stridency. The last track on the EP, “No Takers,” blazes with profound resonance, dark and sighing. Overstreet’s voice mounts and whirls with fulsome hues, imbuing the lyrics with Icarian-washes of color.
With Morpho, Bridal Veil does the seemingly impossible: bathing velvety filaments of dream-pop with sonorous muscularity. This is a grand EP.
