The weather is pretty miserable in the South West today so to cheer things up how about a moped trip down the Northern California coastline for a late night beach party around a driftwood fire. All courtesy of Veitiver and his new video for Current Carry from the album Complete Strangers. It was filmed in Northern California by Alex Kopps.
Vetiver have also just announced their UK / EU tour dates including London in November (dates below). The band is just coming to the end of a US tour opening for Wilco.
Vetiver is the long-standing moniker of San Francisco-based artist Andy Cabic, may be synonymous with the early-to-mid 00’s freak-folk boom, due to his collaborations with the likes of Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom and tours with Vashti Bunyan and Fleet Foxes, his latest record Complete Strangers is a far removed, stylistically evolved piece of work that in no uncertain terms puts that overused term to bed. It is brimming with slick grooves, pop-hooks and a coating of production (courtesy of long-time producer/collaborator Thom Monahan) so glassy and shimmering you can see your own reflection in it. There are moments of refined, plaintive, folk – as you of course have come to expect – but just as frequently are explorations into Yacht Rock, 1970’s AOR, Balearic disco and West Coast soft-pop-rock. “The songs on Complete Strangers bear some resemblance to the album’s title. They share things in common but come from different places, different times” states Cabic.
EU TOUR DATES:
18-09-15 Viljandi (Estonia) – Viljandi Music Walk
19-09-15 Barcelona (SP) – BAM Festival
20-09-15 Zaragoza (SP) – Las Armas
21-09-15 Madrid (SP) – El Sol
22-09-15 Ourense (SP) – Café Pop Torgal
23-09-15 Oviedo (SP) – La Lata de Zinc
24-09-15 Bilbao (SP) – Kafe Antzokia
27-09-15 Zurich (CH) – Exil
29-09-15 Freiburg (DE) – The Great Räng Teng Teng
30-09-15 Schondorf (DE) – Manufaktur
01-10-15 Berlin (DE) – Berghain Kantine
03-10-15 Goteborg (SW) – Pustervik
05-10-15 Oslo (NO) – Blå
06-10-15 Stockholm (SW) – Geronimos
07-10-15 Copenhagen (DK) – Ideal Bar
09-10-15 Haarlem (NL) – Patronaat
10-10-15 Paris (FR) – Le Pop Up Du Label
11-10-15 Brussels (BE) – ABClub
13-10-15 London (UK) – Oslo
14-10-15 Bristol (UK) – The Lantern
15-10-15 Manchester (UK) – Night & Day
16-10-15 Glasgow (UK) – Stereo
17-10-15 Liverpool (UK) – Leaf
Photo Credit: Terri Loewenthal