Ears Wide Open: Vanaprasta
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L.A. quintet Vanaprasta has come a long way since they got inside my head with their nifty guitar work last March. Not so far that they have an album out yet – that’ll happen when “Heathy Geometry” is released later this year – but far enough that their dramatic blend of churning rhythms, bright riffage and glowing imagery sounds ready for big stages. The band – Collin Desha, Steven Wilkin, Taylor Brown, Cameron Dmytryk and Ben Smiley – traveled to Portland late last year to record, and the initial results of those sessions, the “Forming the Shapes” EP, will be out next month. Vanaprasta will also contribute a cover of LCD Soundsystem’s “All My Friends” to a forthcoming L.A. charity compilation, “Uncovering a Cure.” On the EP version of their album’s title song, Vanaprasta takes some liberties with the word “geometry,” but their math works for me.
||| Download: “Heathy Geometry (EP Version)”
||| Live: Vanaprasta plays tonight at Spaceland with Summer Darling, Shiloe and By Sunlight.
Saw them perform this cover at Bardot last year… Blew my mind. Didnt think an amazing song like “All My Friends” was possible to cover and actually be good.
From the picture it was not what I expected, but I was pleasantly surprised