American indie trio Vern Matz just released the single Operator lifted from their new self-titled EP. After meeting at a college party, the group made up of three Yale students, was born out of a mutual love of Radiohead. They take inspiration from artists such as The National and Wilco to craft their delicate and touching sound brimming with soft guitar and piano instrumentation with subtly emotive lyrics. Given gentle underlying energy and rhythm by the percussion, hints of folk and indie blend together in their music with equal parts uplifting and authentic melancholic writing.
Commenting on the EP, the band have said, “Much of the EP expresses of a feeling of displacement and an attempt to restore a sense of wholeness. There’s confusion and nervousness in the fact that you don’t know what needs to be restored. But there is a lot of excitement and emotion in that uneasiness. We were swept up in the idea of nostalgia as style, and the EP very intentionally looks toward past generations of alternative music for inspiration.”
Listen to Operator below
