Screen Vinyl Image The Midnight Sun Reviews

Screen Vinyl Image got two reviews for their debut EP. One at Mars Needs Guitars and one at And Before the First Kiss. reviews and links below. You can purchase a copy of the EP by going to our purchase page.

And Before the First Kiss
by. colin

Sometimes a sound, a groove, a beat, a rhythm, a crank and grind... just comes running at you like a Japanese bullet train in a hurry and on fire. It just plunges at you, layer after layer, and sits in your ears and demands to be put on repeat for days and days. You begin to see life as a 1967 test pattern on a B&W TV set (through a haze of cheap cigarette smoke). This is the case with the track below, the lead song from a new EP by the band Screen Vinyl Image (who are J. Sequential and Electra Blue). The sound is a disturbed landscape, an alien-infested and acid-tinged one, that takes you straight (backwards or forwards?) to a moment where kraut-rock makes love to the world and everyone, by troika-endorsed law, can only communicate in signs and symbols and must possess at least three LPs, each, by Can and Suicide (playing them backwards, in week-to-week cycles, whilst wearing VU dark sunglasses, a dangerous attitude and a wicked pout). This is my music of choice. I'm simply blown away. In fact, it's the best sound I've heard since playing this album for the first of many times. Live shows are forthcoming, check the links below. Happy Revolution Day, comrades.

Mars Needs Guitars
by. merz

In a previous life I worked for a large Finnish corporation and was fortunate to have traveled to Finland numerous times. By far, the summer was the best time to visit there since a day never really ends during the months of July and August. It was hard though to get up and go to work everyday since the midnight sun made it difficult to sleep at night.

Memories of my time spent in Finland started to stir the other day when I received in the mail a copy of Screen Vinyl Image's The Midnight Sun EP. Obviously, the EP's title was the cue to those good repressed memories and listening to the title track sure didn't slow things down. The song starts with a syncopated beat and about the one minute mark a fuzzed out droning guitar comes into play with a complement of echoing vocals entering through the mix. Further in the song erupts in a distorted fuzzed out haze creating an image of the Finnish summer midnight sun creeping thru the window blinds.

Screen Vinyl Image are J. Sequential and Electra Blue and their debut EP will be out on April 3rd on the small DC label Safranin Sound & Design (a label created by members of Alcian Blue). The Midnight Sun EP is a heady blend of synths and echoed guitars that create a surreal ride through it's layers of sound. It's a futuristic, expansive sound and is one that reveals something new on every listen.