Wrapped In Cellophane

by Vessel

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Sylvie 12 Tracks. All good. Jittery post-punk perfection. Love this band. Favorite track: What's Inside.

ToddS Vessel makes good music! Favorite track: Balance.

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1.	Whatcha Doin 03:03	buy track
2.	Hollow Empathy 02:51	buy track
3.	Abducted 03:44	buy track
4.	Lost Appeal 03:07	buy track
5.	Balance 01:32	buy track
6.	Blonde 04:08	buy track
7.	Game 02:17	buy track
8.	Pull The Strings 02:35	buy track
9.	Telephone 02:06
10.	Testin Me 02:57	buy track
11.	What's Inside 02:57	buy track
12.	Some Say 04:42	buy track

about

In a diffuse time of online life and ever-rising rents, the old-school band-as-gang is a rarer thing than it once was. But that’s Vessel’s lifeblood: four friends, breathing the same air, living and working around each other. A casual way to kill time during the pandemic became an ongoing affair, the quartet steadily crafting songs together for two years and beginning to play live when shows returned. Their debut gig was at a friend’s house party in Knoxville; they were still playing under an acronym created with their initials before picking the name Vessel out of a hat of suggestions each had submitted. Soon, they signed to Double Phantom Records and began preparing their debut album, Wrapped In Cellophane.

The result is an album that zips along through one infectious idea after another, landing on the more effervescent side of the art-rock spectrum. If Vessel is an organism made of these four players, Tuisku provides the heartbeat: Her drums are the crisp propulsion underneath everything, and her vocals peel out alongside Robinson’s guitar and Bishop’s sax. Most of Tuisku’s lyrics derive from her own life, mulling over distance and relationships. Sometimes, the relentless, coiled rhythms the quartet favor can mimic the feeling of those emotions constricting in your chest, but most often Vessel strike playful contrasts — “Lost Appeal” grapples with numbness and apathy while the music adopts a bouncy, doo-wop inspired tone. Elsewhere, images and ideas collide in vibrant fashion. Whether a takedown of the rich and fake and famous in “Game” or a tale of aliens in “Abducted,” fun asides coexist with heavier songs like “Blonde” — a lesbian love affair unfolding in a psych ward and ending in tragedy.

Throughout, you can hear how Vessel patiently chiseled spontaneity into precision. Free-form jams have become punchy pop missiles in their hands — sometimes hypnotic, sometimes kraut-y, sometimes breakneck, sometimes danceable, sometimes pining, sometimes sly. Across Wrapped In Cellophane, Vessel make a sound that could only be the result of these four people together in a room — a sound that is wildly, vividly alive.

credits

released April 2, 2024

Alex Tuisku - Drums, Vocals, Lyrics
Keron Robinson - Guitar
Dan Pulido - Bass
Isaac Bishop - Sax, Percussion, Keys and Vocals

Recorded and mixed by Graham Tavel at Mirror Mirror Recording Studio (Atlanta, GA)
Mastered by Endre Tomaschek at Spinning Whale Studios (Charlleston, SC)
Photography by Sam Laubscher
Graphic design by Rose Rotunda

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Vessel Atlanta, Georgia

"Vessel is the latest export of dynamic and tight-grooved yet exploratory post-punk coming out of Atlanta. Building on a rich history of Athens art school punk and the reckless abandon of Atlanta DIY, the band is adept in their craft of calculated, yet danceable indie rock ready to break the mold." Milo McGehee and Jake Van Valkenburg ... more

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