VASA Heroics
Label | Help Musicians |
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Format | LP |
Release Date | 21st February 2020 |
Catalogue Number | VASA003 |
Additional Info | Released 21st February 2020. |
Already picking up comparisons to the mighty And So I Watch You From Afar, Adebisi Shank, Maybeshewill and Explosions In The Sky, VASA’s explosive and frantically inventive music goes one step further and turns sub-genre conventions and clichés on their head with a healthy injection of Celtic-influenced roots and a frenetic, dance-y infectious energy that's hard to refuse. Merging the ambience and crushing crescendos of post rock with the finger tapping and time changes of math rock, Vasa have been making noise all over Scotland since January 2012.
Heroics, VASA's second album, is a sonic exploration in coming to terms with the pains of growing old through reconnecting with our own individual pasts and the histories of generations before. Marking a significant growth in the band’s trademark sound, this album opens up new depths drawing from the invincibility of childhood, the chaos of adolescence and the uncertainties of adulthood.
As we grow older we often start to disconnect from our past. We are taught that in order to grow, we must leave that which came before behind. We must become adults. But, in reality, as we become older we begin to realise our parents and our grandparents have experienced this same disconnect too. The same insecurities, the same faults, the same vulnerabilities. This album is the emotional representation of that feeling and the rebellion against it through the act of embracing who we never really stopped being. As such, Heroics does not aim to be one definitive story but all of our stories. It is an invitation for the listener to come on a shared journey which delves into our collective past where they can choose to colour in the blanks with their own experience.
Composed over three years, Heroics was brought to life between 45-A-Side and Trapdoor Studios with the help of Tom Peters in the summer of 2019. The album is broken into the key stages of life: childhood, adolescence and adulthood where the band explores a whole new range of tonality. Shifting from the childlike bounce of the title track to the electronic pulses that ebb and flow over Prom Night all the way through to the album’s viciously dark yet uplifting conclusion, VASA have created a brazenly joyous yet melancholic soundscape that traverses a lifetime.
1. | Childhood | |||
2. | Heroics | |||
3. | Everything is Golden | |||
4. | Adolescence | |||
5. | Mini-Boss | |||
6. | Prom Night | |||
7. | Victoria | |||
8. | Adulthood | |||
9. | Expectations | |||
10. | Settle |