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Vladimir’s latest EP, Versus Coda, offers an impressive selection for a mere three track CD because it’s filled with 14 minutes of high quality sounds that are vastly dark and melancholic. When it comes to songs from this Apeldoorn quartet, the pace remains slow, the instrumentation delicately controlled, and the volume gentle and resoundingly atmospheric. As such, it becomes difficult to highlight one track as most important from the release, with each one displaying individual strengths to remember them by. ‘Setting Winter Sun’ has its dark mood and raw vocals, ‘She is Okay’ can rely on its hypnotic guitar parts, and ‘Unison’ has its soft trumpet sounds dissolving into a murky background. Throughout, the tone and composition of the vocals falls somewhere between Chris Martin of Coldplay and Blur’s Damon Albarn, which is definitely a further sign of quality, but musically, it is much more pleasing that they fit in with the current crop of Dutch bands like This Beautiful Mess, Audiotransparent, and At The Close of Every Day, who are producing beautifully constructed compositions of depth and emotion.
Steven McCarron
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