As the days get shorter in October, Vancouver-based band Vox Rea promise to brighten them up, when they bring their dreamy and philosophical pop to SidneyB次元官网网址檚 Mary Winspear Centre.
The quartet performs Oct. 5 as part of the Seaside Sessions, which features emerging Canadian musical acts.
Vox Rea features Kate Kurdyak (lead vocals/piano/guitar/bass), her sister Lauren Kurdyak (vocals/piano), childhood best friend Kaitlyn Hansen-Boucher (vocals/percussion) and Mitchell Schaumberg (vocals/piano/guitar/bass), an alum of the prestigious Berklee School of Music.
Formerly known as The Katherines, the band assumed the more androgynous name after adding Schaumberg, who is described as a boy-genius on the piano.
The members of Vox Rea see themselves supplying a soundtrack to the confusion and euphoria of coming-of-age in a post-modern world. Seeing their music as a celebration of free will and an ode to the paralyzing nature of choice, they cite as influences German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche B次元官网网址� perhaps the most famous (and misunderstood) theorist of human agency and critic of prevailing norms B次元官网网址� and Arcade Fire.
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The bandB次元官网网址檚 philosophical tone shines through in their motto, B次元官网网址淰ox Rea was written for you, this is not a productB次元官网网址� in challenging consumerism.
While Vox ReaB次元官网网址檚 videos and album cover strike a personal, trippy, nostalgic tone (inclusive references to H.P. LovecraftB次元官网网址檚 The Dunwich Horror and a picture of a late family member lying on a lounge chair drinking and smoking, wearing nothing more than a Speedo in mid-winter), the musicians wrote two songs that appear to perfectly capture current times.
Dose Up explores the tension between different life stages, while Rest celebrates new beginnings.
Vox Rea hits the stage at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 5. For ticket and other information, visit marywinspear.ca/event/vox-rea.
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