Łabandzi Śpiew: Rosa Vertov

środa, 3 maja 2023

Rosa Vertov - Reflected In (2023)

The truest noisy dream pop band in Poland, Rosa Vertov have just released their new EP. It's been only two years since their second LP called Reflected In but a lot managed to change in the meantime, with the vital change in the band's line-up as the main thing..

As Olga Gniadzik left the band, it is now a trio and this fact reflects on the music they play. Now, their slow and melancholic music is more minimalist which makes it in turn more introvert and self-reflective. Particular elements of their music have more space and it's easy to focus on them separately, admiring the use of grunge'y guitar, noisy backgrounds and fantastic melodies. This is what I like about their music the most: while focusing on the tear-jerking atmosphere, they are perfectly able to smuggle some mindblowing melodies (like in Fading Out for example).

They say that their music "breaks dream pop dreaminess with a good dose of nightmarish unease and melancholy". The way the artists thick up the atmosphere with the use of backing vocals and organ-sounding keys is definitely top class. The album's finish in All We Have Must Be Enough makes the whole experience drastically heavier and more melancholic and I'm here for it.

Reflected In costs whatever you want to pay.

Rosa Vertov - Day In Day Out (2021)

Check: Fading Out

Country: Poland

Genre: slowcore dream rock

środa, 11 sierpnia 2021

Rosa Vertov - Day In Day Out (2021)

The Warsaw-based band Rosa Vertov debuted in 2017 with an album Who Would Have Thought?. This year, they first released the follow-up in the form of Day In Day Out and very, very soon, they will appear on Soundrive Festival, the biggest off-music festival in Poland this year.

In their music, there's "distorted guitars immersed in reverb, resonant, vibrating bass, trancey drums" with dreamy vocals on top of that. On the not too broad Polish dream music scene, the band stands out with the ability to create some ethereal atmosphere in otherwise quite fast and joyful songs that open this release. I especially like the organ sounds that are present in the backgrounds, adding sacral, church-like notes to the already dreamy and spacious music. However, the band sounds best in slower ballads where their airy potential peaks up (so beautiful in Until Blue in the Face or in my favourite, spoken word and noise-filled Scolding Myself II). In most places, it is still indie rock/pop music but the layer of oneirism is so thick, you can easily get lost within the album.

And it's those noisy, hazy parts is what I love about this album. Songs like Scolding... and Years Gone By are what every fan of dreamy music should reach for. And I have to mention the beautiful cover art created by Wiktor Malinowski. This is some top-notch dream music visuals, world class.

Day In Day Out costs whatever you want to pay.

Check: Scolding Myself II