Artist description Seattle's psychedelic groove-pop four piece, Voyager One, experiments with the sonic structures and content of current and past pop music. Paying special attention to the aspects of musical space and density, dynamics and timbre, they fuse melodic hooks and a liberal use of guitar effects with flowing rhythms. Time-lining themselves back through pioneering bands like The Verve, My Bloody Valentine and Ride all the while bluelined by groups such as The Smiths, Acetone and Spiritualized, Voyager One can break your legs and your heart in the space of a single song. The experience is at once intimate, explosive, spacious and entrancing. Voyager One dominate your senses, while pulling you willingly into their world.

Music Style Spacious, all-consuming psychedelic groove-pop

Musical Influences Catherine Wheel, Acetone, Spiritualized, Ride, Verve, Loop

Similar Artists Spiritualized, Ride, My Bloody Valentine, Verve

Artist History 1999 was Voyager One's year in their hometown of Seattle. Coming out of the gates in January, V1 proceeded to make their incendiary live show, with it's obscenely cool visual backdrop, the best thing going. This led to the band getting some dates with some very well-known bands, from Sixteen Deluxe to Sky Cries Mary and Sparklehorse to Sage and The Posies. Their official demo CD 'Zeros And Ones, Parts 1 And 2' sold like wildfire, and now the band have completed their first real album for a release in April. Falling somewhere in the sexy white-hot noise wasteland of Ride, Catherine Wheel and My Bloody Valentine, Voyager One are set to torch the Heavens in 2000 and make your heart their own.

Group Members Peter Marchese, Jeramy Koepping, Dayna Loeffler, John Hollis Fleischman

Albums From the New Nation of Long Shadows

Press Reviews Voyager One create a seamless musical existence so free from the ironic-pop/rock trappings of the local scene that it's often hard to remember that the quartet hails from Seattle and not some dusky planet with three moons and time-lapse desert sunset clouds. Lushly recorded at Renton's Spectre Studios, producer William Bernhard and the band have created what I am quite comfortable calling the best local album of the year to date. From the New Nation of Long Shadows, V1's second (and first "official") full-length, is it's own planet, a planet of sound at times so close to pure music that attempts at description become unusually difficult. There are road signs, landmarks, if you need them. Top-shelf Brit-gazers like Ride, A Storm in Heaven-era Verve, the Stone Roses and My Bloody Valentine. Yes, it's that good. Guitarists Peter Marchese and Jeremy Koepping deftly weave veil upon veil of phasing, pulsing, swirling guitars. Marchese's throaty vocals nestle securely in the mix, often trading melodic lines with Koepping's assured lead figures. Bassist Dayna Loeffler's incredibly solid fretless playing is restrained and understated, at times reminiscent of John Entwistle's best moments with the Who. Hollis Fleischman plays Abbey Road-era Ringo, all wide-open cymbals and inevitably perfect off-beat tom fills; intriguingly, this proclivity is nowhere less apparent than on Long Shadows quarter-speed, nine-plus minute cover of "Daytripper." Like "Daytripper," Voyager One's lyrical bent is such that the songs always seem to be almost, but not quite, about anything. One gets the feeling that the words have been chosen less for their meanings and more for their quality of assonance, a finishing touch, like silver buttons sewn onto an elaborate brocade jacket. There are exceptions -- "Slower California" opens the album with an affecting image of quiescent nihilism ("I dreamed you were hollow/ You were barely there/ I started a new world/ Where we could breathe the air,") -- and the lack of a lyric sheet may mean I'm missing a few gems, but to be honest, I've listened to this album a few dozen times now and rarely find myself noting the lyrics; the vocals are effective enough a component of the music to render any further interpretation unnecessary.Matthew Parker, Pandomag.com Which means I should stop writing now. Do yourself a favor and hear From the New Nation of Long Shadows sooner than later.

Location Seattle, WA - USA

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