TONIGHT: VLMV / Natalie Evans / Pampered Fists in Brighton

Cupboard Music presents:
VLMV and Natalie Evans
+ Pampered Fists
The Folklore Rooms, Brighton
Tickets here: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/567420 or https://www.seetickets.com/.../the-folklore-rooms/2503206

VLMV (pronounced ALMA) is a self-proclaimed ambient-ish post-something singer-songwriter, composer and producer from London.
Known as ALMA until 2018’s literal name flip, necessitated by regular cases of mistaken identity with the Finnish Pop namesake, VLMV take their name from the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array – “a really bloody powerful telescope”.

After extensive UK and EU touring until 2020, the pandemic saw a gap in the hectic live schedule and Pete began writing what was to become 2022’s ‘Sing With Abandon’ , a VLMV’s 3rd studio album release in August, and ‘Flora & Fauna’, an instrumental EP released on UK boutique label Bigo & Twigetti in late November.Sing With Abandon, released on Pete’s own label Nice Weather for Airstrikes, was born from a global pandemic, multiple lockdowns and a country deciding to break up with it’s loved ones, described by ProgMagazine as “Gently epic…A proper album, then, as best experienced as such.”

“An often breathtaking collection of movement and song, ALMA have crafted something truly special here”
– Gold Flake Paint

‘Heart-achingly beautiful’
- Prog Magazine

“As worthy of your love and admiration as anything Sigur Rós or Explosions In The Sky have released”
- Team Rock

Support comes from Natalie Evans (Small Pond Recordings).Fusing a virtuosic talent on guitar, harp and piano with a distinctive playing style and finely tuned songwriting sensibilities, Kent-born Londoner Natalie Evans’ music glows with a rare self-contained grace, as she wraps her minimalist and deceptively simple lyrical lines in winning hooks and harmonies.Evans' sophomore album ‘Movements’ was released on Small Pond Recordings in June 2022. Her new songs have continued to luxuriate in the vivid minutiae of life, channeling themes of nostalgia, the passing of time and human connection with a poetic lightness of touch.“An artist to watch… I love this” – Lauren Laverne (BBC 6Music)
“Really gorgeous... go out and buy her music now" – Guy Garvey (BBC 6Music / Elbow)
"Beguiling, enveloping… her delicate yet empowered songwriting carries within in it deeply personal truths" – Clash+ Pampered Fists (https://pamperedfists.bandcamp.com/)