I peer through dirty windows

Some new music for you today.

From a band I've been listening to all morning.

Hailing from Tacoma, Washington, Mono In VCF produce a sound that just melts your heart. Sweeping keys swirl round like the wind in autumn while Kim Miller's detached vocals ground the songs. It's a near perfect juxtaposition of the emotionally stirring music with an icy, mysterious delivery. Darkly enticing, the songs are hugely cinematic, evoking the feel of both a '60s noir thriller and a kitchen sink melodrama. They're a melting pot of desire mixed with apprehension and manage to be deeply and dramatically haunting where it would be so easy to be embarrassingly thin and overwrought.

And despite being American, there's a definate British influence on the band. That may explain Jarvis Cocker's decision to have them open for him on his Seattle date earlier this year. Personally, elements of their songs remind me of bands like Geneva and Strangelove as they all share a penchant for the gloomily romantic.

With a record due later this year, Mono In VCF are a band to keep an eye and ear open for. Especially if you like your music with a dash of the dramatic, the doomy and the dreamy.

Mono In VCF - escape city scrapers

Mono In VCF - spider rotation

Mono In VCF - the only one

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