VENICE IS SINKING

AGENT:  DANIEL

AVAILABILITY: SEE AVAILS / UPCOMING SHOWS

TOOLS: MAKE AN OFFER / PROMO MATERIALS

BAND SITES:  OFFICIAL BAND WEBSITE / FACEBOOK PAGE

LABEL: ONE PERCENT PRESS (US) / TAG TEAM RECORDS (CHINA)

FREE MP3: Ryan's Song

HOMETOWN:  Athens, GA

DISCOGRAPHY:

2009 - AZAR CD

2007 - SORRY ABOUT THE FLOWERS CD

BIO:

Founded in Athens, GA in 2003, this five-piece band's sound is rooted in cinematic arrangements, subtle genre tweaks, and clear, ringing harmonies. The band's 2006 debut LP, Sorry About The Flowers, garnered national attention for the crystalline male/female vocals of singers Daniel Lawson and Karolyn Troupe and for Troupe's deft layering of her instrument of choice, the viola, which makes few appearances throughout rock history.

The new album, AZAR, finds Venice is Sinking widening its palette, tackling the idea of location's ability to influence our lives. Growing musically since the band's debut, the group, challenged by engineer Scott Solter (Mountain Goats, John Vanderslice, Pattern is Movement), shed the "space rock" designation.   Solter's touch pushed the band to work outside its comfort zone and explore varied, mutated instrumentation and experimental touches that were hinted at on Sorry About The Flowers, but never fully realized. Most importantly, AZAR feels like one thing, conceptually and sonically united behind the idea that our surroundings color even the smallest events in our lives.

The band had the unique opportunity to make a third album right after the AZAR sessions ended. This third LP, whose release and title have yet to be determined, was recorded over one week at Athens' historic Georgia Theatre live to ananlog tape with only two microphones in a manner not dissimilar to the Cowboy Junkies' seminal Trinity Sessions. The new material, overseen by David Barbe (Sugar, Drive-By Truckers, Bettye Lavette), is poppier and twangier, a stark contrast to AZAR and indicative of Venice is Sinking's chimerical influences.

As 2007 and 2008 were spent recording, 2009 will find the band touring and promoting AZAR as well as the Georgia Theatre sessions.

REVIEWS:

An orchestral pop gem if there ever was one.

-PopMatters

With its co-ed harmonies and wandering streams of dense melodies, it is the perfect soundtrack for unexpected overcast days...7.0

-Pitchfork

Pulaski Heights, from their upcoming Sorry About the Flowers, kills with kindness, a sweet and temperate summer breeze of a song.

-Salon.com

An engaging and beautiful piece of slowcore.

-Under The Radar

Each track brings the fuzz, which the band smartly beset with Lawson and Troupe's melodic boy-girl harmonies and the beautifully agonizing sweeps from the viola.

-SPIN.com

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