Vallis Alps
Here’s a young producer vocalist duo that are seemingly split over Seattle and Canberra. Sucked in to whichever one’s in Canberra, AM I RIGHT!? Nah you’re ok Canberra, you have the war memorial and infrastructure and affordable housing and Questacom which has not aged favourably against my timeless nostalgia. Parissa’s vocal is gorgeous and vulnerable, drawing me in the same way that the Schilling sisters 
do on Swimming tracks. The production is structurally clever, calmly padding the verses and announcing the choruses with intensity. There’s a couple of different tricks in the play book so that ‘Thru’ is high energy, upper end synths layering across the track’s conclusion while ‘Young’ is a calm, slow burner relying more on acoustic guitar lines. Reprieve is bright and textural, pitches untouched underneath Parissa’s vocal. I don’t know why I’m bothering describe all this, you’ll make your own judgements when you hear the music and I expect they’ll be rather favourable if you’d kindly make your way over to the duo’s bandcamp. You can pick up their four tracker for $7 – about $2 more than Thom Yorke’s most recent record, but $9 less than it’s actually worth, despite what streaming services are trying to tell us about market value. Take me back to the good old day’s where Sanity would sell you a jewel case for a casual $33, now that was an industry!
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Lovely soundscapes & pleasant, easy-flowing vocals.