Violens

Violens (pronounced "vy-lenz") are a New York-via-Miami four-piece featuring members of Lansing-Dreiden. Their music imagines a place where The Zombies and The Byrds meet Wire and The Violent Femmes, and Crass meets Angelo Badalamenti and Prefab Sprout.

Violens' songs conjure descriptions of nightmares, the passing of time, speculations on spiritual messages, and accounts of psychedelic hallucinations. Even their most frenetic guitar work and aggressive rhythms are draped in a gauze of reverberant, harmonized vocals and synths which create a sense of creepy, artificial comfort.