Chris Kelman reviews Verse Metrics recent Radians EP for Glasgow blog Ravechild…. [box]‘Algorithms’ is built around wave after wave of intense flooding guitars, every stroke that bit more fluorescent with intent. If ‘Algorithms’ is based on intensifying guitars, then ‘Semaphore’ hones itself off of haunting and seeping vocals. ‘Aches’ bends differently altogether, taking the simmering …
Halina Rifai rates ‘Radians’ by Verse Metrics as her second favourite EP of the year. [box]Without a doubt one of the bands to get me very excited about 2013 and lift my spirits in the latter half of 2012. I was starting to get a bit nervous about the standard of artists in …
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…that seems to have burst onto the scene in the last few years’ writes Anna LeBeau. ‘Burn Twice As Bright’ is described as ‘intricate’ and ‘interesting guitar-led indie magic’. Listen to the track and read more at >thevinyldistrict.com<
Verse Metrics apologise for not being able to play tonight in Edinburgh. Bob’s got Shingles and has been advised against playing the show tonight by his doctor. You should all still go along and see Fatherson and Comptroller though.
‘Burn Twice As Bright’, the opening track from Verse Metrics’ new Radians EP is now available to stream via Soundcloud free of charge.
Antonella Azzollini of Polkadot.it says “As soon as I listened to their brilliant work, I felt a kind of nostalgia of American rock, of that sound very much influenced by dragging guitars and hard drums. When you go through 5-track EP is pretty obvious that this work hides a more complex structure which mirrors their …
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Glasgow PodcART write that ‘‘Radians’ is a well thought out and multifarious record. It is EP’s like this that really illustrate the scientific side of music and even with its layered elements and mathematic ingenuity, it is sheer indulgence’. Thanks to Halina Rifai for the kind words! For more than just a brief summary, …
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Radians, in it’s entirety, is available to stream for a whole 24 hours on GoldFlakePaint! Until 5pm on Tuesday 4th December you can listen to the whole EP by visiting their website. Quote: [box]Last week we bought your our review of Radians, the new EP from Scottish rocksters Verse Metrics. Within said review we praised …
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Radians gets a place in Artrocker’s releases for 3rd December. Nicholas Burman describes VM as ‘noisy post rock types’, ‘largely instrumental’ and states that the EP is ‘set to place pretty firmly into a scenes hearts’. He gives it a creditable 4 stars out of 5. You can read the whole thing if you look …
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VM engine room Bob Dick writes for thevinyldistrict.com about discovering and rediscovering music releases on vinyl. [box]“Born in ’82, I grew up with cassette tapes and compact discs. I mainly remember playing CDs as somehow, even when I was very young, I knew cassette tapes were rubbish (in the same way we all knew Minidiscs …
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