Vanishing Kids

Doors: 20 h

Show: 21 h

Wisconsin’s Vanishing Kids are a band I’ve only recently fallen in love with. By complete chance I picked up their new album Miracle of Death to review and subsequently listened to their previous album Heavy Dreamer. Before I come to this new opus, I want to point you to their song ‘Heavy Dreamer’ which is quite simply incredible, and one of the best songs I’ve ever heard. Specialising in dreamy, epic and magical psych rock with elements of sludge/doom, this band are a bona fide time warp from heady days of yore. Heavy hits of Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and more than a splattering of Jane’s Addiction, courtesy of Nikki Drohomyreky’s simply astounding voice, made my intrigue levels peak.

Produced by the band, who consist of Nikki (voice, organ, synthesizers), Jason Hartman (guitars), Jerry Sofran (bass) and Nick Johnson (drums), the album was mixed by Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Anna Von Hauswolff, Pallbearer, Wolves In The Throne Room). You’ll get an idea of the sheer depth of this album based on Dunn’s previous artists. This music absolutely booms with physicality yet retains a beautiful, shimmering grace.

Links

“Spill The Dark”

https://youtu.be/8Y-JvccMKeQ?si=mTK8eEpoY-fqUtHZ

“Heavy Dreamer”

https://youtu.be/P6sKdUOw4Qw?si=NqVwS2L-ba_-jVEL

“Creation”

https://youtu.be/_YQ2ynxxN4o?si=2TYNziSRxb9qrfo2

“Only You”

https://youtu.be/XvkKYJ4wXao?si=IBLUo06bGB2IDx_1

“Miracle of Death” full album:

https://youtu.be/nYCtVbFxPrQ?si=Nw6zVdV4PJTS9j4e