VLF is the solo project of Liam Power who appears to have played all the instruments on the new album Quantum Regression (released February 28, 2025) which might go some way to explain how pointed, focused and unified the songs sound. The single “Fashion” with its urgency is reminiscent of the more aggressive end of both Wire and Buzzcocks with the noisier instincts of the former and the undeniable hooks of the latter. The song seems to be about the frustration with yet embracing the idea of going out of fashion when everything seems to be disposable in our culture and how trying to keep up with all of that can be a rat race the erodes the humanity out of developing something unique because creativity and creative work is not something that can always or ever just be cranked out much less developed at the speed expected out of late capitalism. So why not embrace your analog existence and resist the monetization of all aspects of life. The song rages and explodes and reassembles back into focus like a parallel dynamic to that expected of us but it also veers off that path in glorious fashion like a rebellion against the imposition of arbitrary modes of being. Listen to “Fashion” on Spotify and follow VLF on Instagram. Fans of the aforementioned as well as Snowy Red, A Place to Bury Strangers and even Big Black will find a good deal to like with this song and the rest of the album.
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