Rosie Varela is the singer, songwriter and guitarist for the brilliant Texan shoegaze outfit Eep (whose single ‘Hogar’ I raved about last year). She has now branched out as The Rosie Varela Project (RVP) and released the first of a slough of singles in anticipation of an album later this year.
And ‘Low’ clearly puts on display Varela’s immense talents – her distant and ethereal vocals float above and beyond the delicious wash of brittle, sharp-edged guitars – a wall of reverb-soaked resonance.
Varela’s strength has always been in her melodies – mysterious and magical layers of dreamy lines – in true shoegaze fashion barely distinguishable but atmospheric and evocative. The accompanying video is appropriately filled with vintage psychedelic images that match the dream pop reverie:
If this is the calibre of RVP, then we are in for some exciting new music. You can get the single through the link below:
[…] El Paso shoegaze exponents extraordinaire EEP will be releasing their much anticipated new album ‘Winter Skin’ on Friday, 5 November 2021, and have today released a video for the track ‘No Inbetween’, shot by Subharmonic City Productions and edited by their own multi talented singer Rosie Varela (who released her own debut single ‘Low’ earlier this year under the name The Rosie Varela Project – see my review here). […]