The British electronic musicserves up a mix of chamber music, choral recordings, and experimental electronics and talks Queen of Golden Dogs with Dazed.
“Vessel first emerged as part of Young Echo, a Bristol collective exploring sounds from the outer edges of dubstep, post-punk, and experimental music, in the early 2010s. But it was in 2012 that Vessel really stepped out and introduced themselves as a producer and artist in their own right with debut album Order of Noise. Released via Tri Angle Records, the avant-garde record label who’ve previously worked with artists like Forest Swords, Evian Christ, and Björk, Order of Noise showcased Vessel’s dark, dubby, grainy take on club music. Two years later, they took something of a left turn with their follow-up album, Punish, Honey, an incredible if unusual album that took an oddly Neolithic approach towards electronic music, with Vessel constructing rudimentary instruments to help create its distinctive sound.
Vessel produced their latest album, Queen of Golden Dogs, over an 18-month period following a move from Bristol to rural Wales, and it’s another unexpected step in their uncategorisable career. Chamber music is the album’s most audible influence – there are strings and choral voices all across the record – but none of it’s really put together in a straightforward way, at all. Instruments careen around one another, rhythms clatter, and just when you think you’ve got something sussed out, the whole thing turns into a trance record. It’s an intense trip, and one that’s genuinely unlike anything else released this year. Vessel cites a range of influences for the album, few of them musical: there are composers like Leos Janacek and Don Carlo Gesualdo, sure, but also the painter Remedios Varo, and writers like Maggie Nelson, John Ruskin, and John Milton.”
Listen to ‘Argo (For Maggie)’ fromQueen of Golden Dogsbelow and learn more about Vessel’s Rewire x Korzo performanceatRewire x Korzo: Vessel & Pedro Maia, Lucy Railton.
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