Modern Guilt Releases ‘We'll Always Have Vegas’
Modern Guilt announced the release of their second EP, ‘We’ll Always Have Vegas’, a conceptual snapshot released digitally.
‘We’ll Always Have Vegas’ is a series of snapshot moments across a binge, tales from the feast, and how we remember our lives and the people we encounter. It’s the end of the night, a fixation with happiness through the lens and stories of an individual in Las Vegas. A pilgrimage to false joy, in search of feeling.
Championed by tastemakers including John Kennedy (Radio X), Steve Lamacq (BBC 6Music), Jess Iszatt (BBC Radio 1 / Introducing), the London based outfit are “knocking it out the park. Their sound already has a level of maturity that makes it both distinctive and confident in it’s ambition” (Chalkpit Records).
Frontman Jaz states “the new EP is about the fruitless, delusional and intoxicating arc of reaching into the pit of ourselves and having a good rummage around, chasing complete pleasure and the internal narratives, stories and monologues that accompany each stage of the rise and fall, from looking for the cure to emptiness and loneliness into the circus of nights in and nights out and back to the beginning again.”
Produced by Mikey Buckley, the tracks reflect the narrative and environment. “Talking To Myself” and “Joy Control” are jagged and direct, while the band’s sound expands further on “I Want To Show You God” and “How To Buy Happiness,” introducing space and warmer tones through acoustics and percussion. EP closer “Gramophone Remedy” pulls the listener back, it’s an orchestra heartbeat filled with fragility and melancholy.