VESSEL - "Wrapped In Cellophane" (2024, full album)

Never before has an album been a more empirical proof of Aristotle's axiom that "the whole is much more than the sum of its parts". Although it is also true that each individual part of this four-piece fulfills its task with a creativity and precision that is hardly seen in our days, let alone in our shitty channel! In fact I assure you that if I had to go to a VESSEL gig I wouldn't know what to wear, I don't really know if something so cool and stylish has a place in our collection of peculiarly weird artifacts, but the truth is that I can't explain how something so groovy, fun, and catchy at first sight, can sound so jazzy and angularly elegant! Absolutely wonderful Arty-Post-Punk, the kind you should never try to make at home because the frustration will make you spend 50.000 bucks in fucking therapy sessions... So relax, dance and enjoy this collection of Atlanta-made gems, and thank the multiverse for putting something like this in your parth!
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Alex Tuisku - Drums, Vocals, Lyrics
Keron Robinson - Guitar
Dan Pulido - Bass
Isaac Bishop - Sax, Percussion, Keys and Vocals
00:00 01. Whatcha Doin
03:03 02. Hollow Empathy
05:55 03. Abducted
09:40 04. Lost Appeal
12:47 05. Balance
14:20 06. Blonde
18:28 07. Game
20:46 08. Pull The Strings
23:22 09. Telephone
25:29 10. Testin Me
28:26 11. What's Inside
31:24 12. Some Say
"In a diffuse time of online life and ever-rising rents, the old-school band-as-gang is a rarer thing than it once was. But that’s Vessel’s lifeblood: four friends, breathing the same air, living and working around each other. A casual way to kill time during the pandemic became an ongoing affair, the quartet steadily crafting songs together for two years and beginning to play live when shows returned. Their debut gig was at a friend’s house party in Knoxville; they were still playing under an acronym created with their initials before picking the name Vessel out of a hat of suggestions each had submitted. Soon, they signed to Double Phantom Records and began preparing their debut album, Wrapped In Cellophane.
The result is an album that zips along through one infectious idea after another, landing on the more effervescent side of the art-rock spectrum. If Vessel is an organism made of these four players, Tuisku provides the heartbeat: Her drums are the crisp propulsion underneath everything, and her vocals peel out alongside Robinson’s guitar and Bishop’s sax. Most of Tuisku’s lyrics derive from her own life, mulling over distance and relationships. Sometimes, the relentless, coiled rhythms the quartet favor can mimic the feeling of those emotions constricting in your chest, but most often Vessel strike playful contrasts - “Lost Appeal” grapples with numbness and apathy while the music adopts a bouncy, doo-wop inspired tone. Elsewhere, images and ideas collide in vibrant fashion. Whether a takedown of the rich and fake and famous in “Game” or a tale of aliens in “Abducted,” fun asides coexist with heavier songs like “Blonde” - a lesbian love affair unfolding in a psych ward and ending in tragedy.
Throughout, you can hear how Vessel patiently chiseled spontaneity into precision. Free-form jams have become punchy pop missiles in their hands - sometimes hypnotic, sometimes kraut-y, sometimes breakneck, sometimes danceable, sometimes pining, sometimes sly. Across Wrapped In Cellophane, Vessel make a sound that could only be the result of these four people together in a room - a sound that is wildly, vividly alive."
Recorded and mixed by Graham Tavel at Mirror Mirror Recording Studio (Atlanta, GA)
Mastered by Endre Tomaschek at Spinning Whale Studios (Charlleston, SC)
Photography by Sam Laubscher
Graphic design by Rose Rotunda
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[@tedeschiniable]

Nice!

[@oscaralvarez2571]

🎇🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆masterpiece

[@TheeMikeForce]

Great with Good Smoke. Written Post-Eclipse.

[@paperfaceteam9757]

Love the closing track the most

[@vesselatlanta]

Thank you :-))

[@urbainfelin1858]

La basse elle sautille ça sonne ... Excellent morceau d'intro , le Sax virevolte c'est bien géré ! Bravo belle découverte Merci Amigooooo

[@tomaszjargunna4564]

Non-pretentious and superb lazy stuff.