Listen: Evenings – Lo-Vélo

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Evenings, despite the pluralised moniker, is Nathan Broaddus – a 21 year-old student and Charlottesville native.

‘Lo-Vélo’ is a stand-out track taken from recently self-released full-length Lately, the musician’s second release to date after his suitably fraternally-titled North Dorm EP dropped June last year.

The track dips up and down, nodding in and out of consciousness like a confused and bewildering daydream taking place on a long and gruelling coach journey, surrounded by strange voices that blur reality and distort the familiar and the unsettling.

The young Virginian records his tracks on reel-to-reel tape decks, interested in the blend of hi- and lo-fi mediums. The track’s jilting texture is inherent from Broaddus’ field recordings, which vary from the chimes being orchestrated by the wind on his front porch to the sound of strangers talking in the street.

“I exported everything to my tape deck and dubbed it all to reel, which really warms up the sound. When you’re listening back on reel, you can actually grab the tape while its spinning and make the tape stop, which causes all the pitches to dip lower very quickly. If you were to hold the tape for longer than a a second or two the reel would completely stop spinning/playing. This gives the music a very strange feel.”

You can download the album his Bandcamp for a mere $5, or whatever that is in the Queen’s Pound Sterling.

Evenings – Lo-Vélo by The Line Of Best Fit