Velvetine

Velvetine are a London-based alternative post-rock band. The four-piece (comprised of Mia Scarlet, Ross Fernyhough, Joshua Rowell and Gabriel Powell) blend their various influences of post-punk, art-rock, and shoegaze into gothic, gloomy and atmospheric rock.

Their first release "Curtainsong"navigates the dread of modern-day social interactions, whilst "Hideaway", their second single, as a hopeless childlike vision of the world’s end, shows environmental and political issues as deep flaws of the world humans created themselves and continue to hide from.

“Everyday Masquerade” is an ode to inspiration, and the individual’s vision - the monotonous attempts to possess the means to justify the struggle of what it entails to be an artist, with almost no footing in their everyday life. From joy, to anger, to the endless monotony of menial jobs, the song is an affirmation of the experience of these emotions. It shows you that anxiety and uncertainty are far from worrying or concerning emotions, but an ignition for all the most self rewarding work that someone can make.

The songs as introspective confessions, take forms of cinematic haunting and lucid dreams that are interacting with the outside world or foreshadow the well known truths.