WV White

WV White

House Of Spiritual Athletes

Anyway

WVWhite’s follow-up album to the acclaimed 2014 debut, West Virginia White, on Anyway records. Since forming in early 2012, WVWhite has played with bands such as Parquet Courts, Doug Gillard, Sic Alps, Teen Suicide, Archer Prewitt and a short tour with Sleepyhead. They played the 2014 Nelsonville Music Festival as well as the 2014 CMJ Music Marathon. The debut album made several Best of 2014 lists including Village Voice Pazz and Jop.“There’s the wildly psychedelic American shoegaze of The Swirlies and The Lilys, the slacker-pop quirk and drawl of Pavement and Built to Spill, even the space-age percolations of Stereolab. It’s where they converge, shatter, and form blissful swells of chaos that is the most intriguing and refreshing quality of WV White. They simultaneously sound like a band that rolled out of bed and onto stage, scratching the sleep from their eyes but deciding to wail, and a band that have been trained hours on end by bards of the recent past to preserve the indie rock touchstones of the ’90s.” - Kevin Elliot, Agit Reader

WV White

West Virginia White

Anyway

The Americarnal. Midwestern existentialism. Sonic surrealism. Suburban ennui turned up all the way. Flora and fauna undisturbed...... For Tyler Travis (guitar, vocals), Caeleigh Featherstone (keyboards, vocals), John C. Fisher (bass), and Tayler Beck (drums) these things are real. Ohio boredom and isolation breeds certain tones in the music of WV White that shakes bones and melts away the conceptual percepts of what a rock band should be and sound like. Travis pounds riffs with a slack-jawed awe, Featherstone gilds them with bubbling organ drones, and the battery dances their own spartan jig around it all.  .....Rural voodoo. Attic rituals. Man vs. Man. Nature vs. Nurture.  Pieris Virginiensis. It's the species of insect from which this Columbus crew get their name. There's barely significance in that name, but a butterfly's metamorphosis is an apt analogy to describe what WV White was and what they've become. The move from caterpillar to chrysalis and onward to floating in the breeze of summer is something both ugly and beautiful. Evolution is not usually spoken when describing a debut, but WV White have certainly evolved from a scrappy clubhouse of blotto jam sessions to a band that now sounds completely comfortable in their own skin. Distortion and noise still carry them through -- check out the American shoegazing of "The Mess," or the almost-punk yet-buoyant "Multiple Bathrooms" -- but they've also become sleek and elegant. Pianos twinkle and harmonies start to creep out of the once prevalent cacophony on such clear-headed rambles as "Cockroaches" and "Mastercraft,"...