Violet Burning

Violet Burning
Hailing from Orange County, California, the violet burning combines elements of early '80's post-punk rock like early U2, Echo and the Bunnymen and The Cure with exhilarating squalls of guitars separated by dreamy lulls and a gaggle of moody ballads reminiscent of '90's artists like Smashing Pumpkins and Radiohead. Their self-titled debut for Domo Records provides a wrecking ball workout of rhythm and melody that is truly sublime. The songs that singer / songwriter Michael Pritzl crafts are full of bitter-sweet sentiment which his bandmates flesh out with high contrast music that adeptly combines the gritty and the fluid, dreamy interludes with earthy energy. The violet burning have created a unique soundscape which takes the listener on an often self-illuminated journey of mind and spirit. Tracks such as "Underwater" and "Blind" are like the slow burn of a drug entering your system. "Silver" and "Crush" are the burst of speckled light as the drug hits your brain and "Low" is the energetic euphoria that hits your system quickly thereafter.

The Violet Burning, a quartet from Long Beach, has both passion and a skill for creating smoldering, urgent and experimental soundscapes. The instrumental focus is on a three guitar collage, but instead of a typical assault of up-tempo, electrified noise, this guitar work both grabs and glides, shifting tempos and textures to express an array of emotional peaks and valleys.

There's a touch of trippy psychedelic ("Arabic Tremolo Radio"), the faint essence of funk ("Fever"), a smidgen of Western twang ("Waiting"), scintillating squalls of noisy guitar separated by moody lulls, several of which ("Blind," "Silver") feature Pritzl's falsetto. Underpinning it all is a distinct brooding quality that smacks of Gothic rock. Pritzl graciously acknowledges the genre's influence, but hesitates to embrace it.

The Violet Burning is: Michael J. Pritzl, Andy Prickett, Jeff Schroeder, and Jason Pickersgill. The Violet Burning has completed their debut C.D. for Domo Records.

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The Sun and the Sky (22 kbps)

Low (22 kbps)