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    Posted: May 01 2017 at 12:47
Vinyl Williams is an American band led by the Los Angeles based multimedia artist and musician Lionel Williams (son of THE John Williams).

Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl_Williams): "Vinyl Williams' music attempts to achieve 'sonic matrices', most simply described as an identification of sounds combined to elevate spirit, embellish certain imagery, or to allow for an individual's listening experience to be an aesthetic, pleasant, and contrasting sensory experience.[2] These audible frequencies are attained by a wide variety of techniques. An early and popular example may be certain pieces by Claude Debussy, notably the use of parallel chords, chord substitution, and natural modulations. The style and genre of the music has been described in various ways owing to the multiple influences and reference points of Vinyl Williams' music, with the terms electronic, krautrock, psyched-out rock, shoegaze, pop and chillwave all having been mentioned.[3]

WIlliams released the track "Gold" through Bandcamp in 2010, followed by the "Naked Sanctuary" EP in July 2010. The EP featured the tracks "100", "Freshly Picked Diamond", "Zeal Biotics", "Spiral Galaxy" and "Psychic Shrine" and was written, recorded and produced by Lionel Williams.[4] Williams followed this with the release of "Ultimate World" EP through Warmest Chord on April 9, 2012.

In March 2012, The Guardian featured Vinyl Williams in its 'New Band of the Day' series, with Paul Lester describing Williams' music as playing host to "the effulgent aura of the more gently experimental noise-pop, with the ghostly pall of chill wave"[5] while Altered Zones commented that "Williams magnificently strings together cosmic mysticism, punchy shoegaze, and skewed acid-pop into a cohesive body of songs that pulls the listener down a prismatic spiral of feel good aural meditation."[6]

Williams says of his writing style, "There is no conception to the work, as in I let it "happen" without restricting it conceptually, or by forming preliminary ideas before actually executing the work. I let it flow out, I improvise, then toy at the improvisation until it emanates some kind of bliss."[7] He also mentions his “religiously dissonant upbringing, growing up in the atmosphere of Utah and experiencing the mysteries of Mormonism.” as a major influence over his approach to his art."

Why this artist should be in ProgArchives? 

Im my view, for its Eclecticism, that approuch the band in sounds like Radiohead, and even modern Krautrock/Space acts, such as Electric Orange, or post-rock in the vein of Talk Talk . So, I think the band should fill the Crossover Prog tag. It is certain that the band has a "pop" approuch, wich is evident by the influence of Hypnagogic Pop (such as Ariel Pink), but Vynil Williams delivers a very progressive Hypnagogic Pop.

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https://vinylwilliams.bandcamp.com/album/lemniscate

https://vinylwilliams.bandcamp.com/




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Edited by desistindo - May 01 2017 at 12:53
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2017 at 17:15
Sounds a tad of psych / shoegaze pop for me, but they've been on our chart. Thanks.
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