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Your peace surrounds me through all my days

The Cage is an album caught between light and shadow – a collection of songs that breathe both intimacy and grandeur. Minimalist guitar and piano motifs intertwine with warm cello lines, carried by hypnotic beats and wide, cinematic soundscapes. The sound moves between trip-hop, indie and alternative – at times fragile as a whisper, at others soaring and eruptive.

The lyrics circle around love in the face of collapse, around longing, and the feeling of being trapped while still carrying hope within. Each track opens its own space: from melancholic floating ballads to dark, urban trip-hop grooves.

With The Cage, Velvet Petals deliver a work that feels both vulnerable and powerful – a soundtrack for sleepless nights, moments of solitude, and the quiet triumph of loving against all odds.

On and On and On

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The second collaboration between singer/songwriter Kevin Devine and Andy Hull of Manchester Orchestra, Bad Books II finds these two extraordinary tunesmiths untethered from their respective brands, joining forces to reach new stylistic and emotional terrain.  Accompanied by members of Manchester Orchestra – with guitarist Robert McDowell also producing and keyboardist/percussionist Chris Freeman once again supplying distinctive album art – Hull and Devine offer up a series of magnificently etched songs which light upon everything from anthemic stadium rock (“The After Party”) and reflective balladry (“42”) to energetic bubblegum (“No Sides”), gloriously baroque psychedelia (“Petite Mort”), and whistling big beat pop (“Forest Whitaker”).  The real-time sound of a group of talented friends synthesizing into something altogether more cohesive and accessible, Bad Books II reveals a remarkable new band in the truest sense, emboldened and at ease enough to set out together for places unknown.

It Never Stops

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