About: Avers
Psychedelic pop. Blistering garage rock. Fuzzed-out
shoegaze. Free-formed throwback jams. With their amps cranked high and their
voices doused in reverb, Avers brew up their own kind of spacey swirl. It's a
sound that keeps one foot in the past and the other in the present, like some
kind of 1960s time capsule unearthed by a group of 21st century indie kids.
And it sort of happened by accident.
On a summer night in 2013, two Richmond based musicians got
together to talk shop and geek out over psychedelic records. It went well. The
next time, they brought along some additional friends. Before long, a proper
six-piece had formed, with The Head and the Heart's Tyler Williams on drums and
some of the city's best frontmen including James Mason (the Mason Brothers),
James Lloyd Hodges (Farm Vegas), Alexandra Spalding (Hypercolor), Adrian Olsen
(Hypercolor), and Charlie Glenn (the Trillions) swapping their way between
bass, guitar and keyboard duties. Everybody sang, adding harmonies and
background vocals to the band's noisy sweep.
In just over a week, ten songs were written. The music was
ethereal and expansive, with electric guitar riffs that sprawled skyward into
the ether and deep-seated percussion that brought everything crashing back to
earth. Avers recorded everything as they went along, setting up shop at Olsen's
own studio, Montrose Recording. Located on an historic Richmond plantation and
featuring some of the same vintage equipment used by hometown heroes like Sparklehorse
and Brian Harvey, Montrose became the band's official home base, a place where
new sounds could be coaxed out of old instruments.
Tracked live and produced by the bandmates themselves, Empty
Light is a tribute to chance encounters and shared goals. It's the sound of a
young band coming together, blending a plurality of influences the epic sweep
of Spiritualized, the guitar-fueled freakouts of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club,
the cultish crunch of Brian Jonestown Massacre into something singular. It's a
record that invites you to turn on and tune in... but it won't let you drop
out. Empty Light is too rousing for that. ~ Andrew Leahey
CONTACT: http://www.aversmusic.com/
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