Veronica Falls (Deluxe Edition) [2LP]

Veronica Falls - Veronica Falls (Deluxe Edition) [2LP]

First released in 2011, Veronica Falls introduced a band with a deceptively simple proposition: take the sweetness, immediacy and melodic rush of classic pop and indie pop, then let something darker seep through the cracks. Across twelve songs, the London quartet of Roxanne Clifford, James Hoare, Marion Herbain and Patrick Doyle fused chiming guitars, ragged rhythms and beautifully intertwined vocals with songs about ghosts, doomed romance, death and dread. The result was an album that could sound euphoric and unsettling in the same breath.

The album remains a concise document of a band at a particularly distinctive moment: steeped in the lineage of The Velvet Underground, Beat Happening, Galaxie 500, Felt and 1960s pop, but with its own wonderfully skewed take on those influences. Veronica Falls would go on to release a second album, Waiting for Something to Happen, in 2013, before the members pursued separate musical paths. Patrick Doyle died in 2018.

Fifteen years on, this anniversary reissue adds a bonus disc gathering nine recordings from the same period. Side C brings together five covers — the Rolling Stones' "Under My Thumb," Slumber Party's "Sooner Or Later," The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band's "Eighteen Is Over the Hill," Eurythmics' "Thorn in My Side" and The Verlaines' "Joed Out." Side D collects four B-sides from the band's early singles.

Track Listing:

Side A
1. Found Love in a Graveyard
2. Right Side of My Brain
3. The Fountain
4. Misery
5. Bad Feeling
6. Stephen

Side B
1. Beachy Head
2. All Eyes on You
3. The Box
4. Wedding Day
5. Veronica Falls
6. Come on Over
7. Come on Over (Demo)

Side C
1. Under My Thumb
2. Sooner Or Later
3. Eighteen Is Over The Hill
4. Thorn In My Side
5. Joed Out

Side D
1. Starry Eyes
2. Staying Here
3. Back Page
4. Killing Time