Vök - Circles [12"]

As one of the concert DJ's at our local music venue i am receiving a monthly update of bands that'll be playing there, to request to play at gigs of choice. When i saw VÖK was booked it didn't instantly ring a bell, but the moment i had checked out some of their tunes on Spotify i was hooked. Definitely my kind of electronic music. So i got the job for that evening and i must say it was an amazing show. Excellent performance of a great bunch of talented young folks from Iceland. It's not without reason that they won the annual local band contest Músíktilraunir in 2013. Their debut full length should be coming out later this year, but so far they released the Tension EP in 2013 and this CIRCLES EP last year. Luckily they had these 12"es with them at the merch stand so i bought both of them after the show. The 4 songs on this EP are almost equally brilliant, but If I Was is definitely my favourite. It's got a great groove, which reminds me a bit of Austra. And of course you can't deny the catchiness of their very strong single Waterfall. The EP sounds excellent and was mixed and mastered by Biggi Veira of GusGus. I actually had some GusGus ready to play after their show, but when the band had chosen Crossfade as intro tune, i skipped that plan. I tried to re-create my playlist of the evening by the way if you're interested: Vök - Leiden 09/03/16. You can find Waterfall in there, marking when the band played. Definitely worth to check them out if you never heard of them before and are into artists like the xx, Austra or The Knife. And now let's wait for this killer debut album to be released!

Label: Record Records
Cat.nr.: RELP043
Year of release: 2015

SIDE A:
01. Waterfall
02. Adrift

SIDE B:
01. If I Was
02. Circles