Preview: Meltt Headlining the Vera Project 3.3.23

Hailing from North Vancouver, psych-rock rising stars Meltt are kicking off their tour and celebrating the release of their new EP, Another Quiet Sunday, with a headlining set at Seattle's beloved Vera Project. 

For the unfamiliar, Meltt combines distorted riffs, otherworldly soundscapes, and ethereal vocals to offer profound meditations on loss and love, grief and hope. Fans of Foals, Tame Impala, and Glass Animals will no doubt find much to savor, be it at an energetic live show on their Another Quiet Sunday Tour, on the aforementioned new EP, or their transcendent 2019 LP Swim Slowly. There's a reason they've racked up millions of streams across multiple tracks: this is just genuinely great music.

Much of Meltt's newest work touches on the feelings around grief and suffering centered around the loss of band member Ian Winlker's father to ALS. In the band's own words, “The title track, ‘Another Quiet Sunday (Keep Moving On).’ is purposefully vague as to whether the perspective being sung is someone passing away and into a new form/life, or someone saying goodbye to someone passing away into a new form/life. Meaning either returning back to the living after encountering the other side or moving on. We wanted it to be optimistic: the vibe being all of this is temporary, we’re always in transition, and we’ll all rejoin with each other eventually - either turning back into energy that exists within the universe, or becoming part of nature, or reuniting with our ancestors in some spiritual form.” Echoes of this same sentiment permeate the soulful 5 song, 18 minute EP which is now streaming worldwide. 

Dates for their upcoming USA tour are below, and details and tickets can be found here.

Words: Bodi Hallett (Sattva Photo) // Images: Courtesy of Meltt