{"id":23933,"date":"2023-09-02T10:28:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T09:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/?p=23933"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:28:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T09:28:06","slug":"vallens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/vallens\/","title":{"rendered":"Vallens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;5px&#8221;][vc_separator color=&#8221;black&#8221;][vc_column_text]The most fascinating and lasting artists to trip across the vast field we know as popular music are the ones who consistently allow us to ride shotgun along with them as they figure out who they are as artists. Vallens are moving along such rarified lines. On In Era, their 2nd full length LP, vocalist, guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter Robyn Phillips with producer and Vallens bassist\/multi-instrumentalist Devon Henderson, are growing more confidently defined, if tantalisingly and willfully indistinct. In Era is a patient, sculpted piece of work that\u2019s been obsessively \u201clived with\u201d and laboured over by Vallens. But it\u2019s also much less of a \u201cguitar-band\u201d record than you\u2019d anticipate from an ensemble that established itself as fairly proficient with pedals and feedback and the like on 2016\u2019s Consent LP and 2018\u2019s follow-up EP Dimmed In My Display. This is a slow burn, pushing Phillips\u2019 primary instrument her voice and keyboards and electronics to the forefront to establish a mood Phillips describes as \u201cnocturnal and austere yet deprived\u201d and evocative of a \u201cromantic, coquettish letter to the Void\u201d for the duration. \u201cIt was written before COVID times but it weirdly feels even more apt and appropriate now, as it\u2019s about being right in the limbo of two really large events, when you can feel the heaviness of being nowhere. That\u2019s applicable to everyone right now.&#8221;[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_masonry_media_grid grid_id=&#8221;vc_gid:1693646826634-c85bcc9c-9fdd-7&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[253,286],"class_list":["post-23933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portfolios","tag-2023-en","tag-previous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23936,"href":"http:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23933\/revisions\/23936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}