This week’s Listening Party features Israeli bootgazers Vaadat Charigim. What exactly is that term we coined, bootgaze? Read on, for definition follows. Listening Party is a curated weekly column promoting music discovery and encouraging concert-going. Featuring someone we’ve been jamming out to and we recommend to the masses, each Listening Party artist has an upcoming show at a local NYC venue. Grab your headphones and read on.
WHO: Juval Haring (guitar+vocals), Yuval Guttman (drums) and Dan Fabian Bloch (bass).
THEY SAY: “a blend of 80s Israeli underground rock with a more European Post-Punk sound”
WE SAY: Emotional, Guitar-driven Bootgaze; shoegaze meets industrial with post-punk overtones
FROM: Tel Aviv, Israel
ONLINE: https://www.facebook.com/vaadatcharigim
RECENT WORK: 2013’s The World is Well Lost Via Burger Records
UPCOMING SHOW: Death By Audio on March 20 and Piano’s on March 21.
Vaadat Charigim (which translates to “Exceptions Committee” in Hebrew) showcase a modern, guitar-driven and emotion-laden shoegaze sound dripping in reverb, producing an all around sleek rock vibe. Their music, vibrant with aquatic guitar melodies, deep, monotone vocals, and quiet, reliable rhythms, is laden with thoughtful hooks and sprawling song builds, similar to Wild Nothing‘s dream rock. It most resembles the shoegaze and industrial pioneers, My Bloody Valentine, enhanced with pop melodies a much richer vocal narrative. Though each and every lyric, sung is quivery vocals dissimilar from Morrissey’s own, is in Hebrew, the dark theme of their music is discernable among splashy melodies. “Our music deals with dystopia, war, loss of values, and just living alone in a city,” the band explained in a recent interview. These themes come through loud and clear in their video for “Odisea,” below, which follows the trail of a woman alone in a dystopian future, wandering through an empty city, seeking someone if not anyone. This band is rolling through New York after hitting SXSW this week. You can catch them at Death By Audio on Thursday the 20th or in the city Friday the 21st at Piano’s.
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