Bio
Eluding tidy categorization, Midday Veil draws from an ever-deepening well of influences including krautrock, folk, drone, blues, noise, new age, metal, and various kinds of non-western and traditional music.
The band began as the duo of vintage synth freak David Golightly and vocalist/instrumentalist Emily Pothast. The current lineup also includes Timm Mason (aka Debacle/Aphonia solo artist Mood Organ) on baritone guitar and Chris Pollina on drums and the occasional banjo.
Press
"I once saw a sign in a New York City storefront that read "ALL IS BLISS." It was one of the most beautiful--if illusory--axioms I've ever seen. And it just might be Midday Veil's guiding principle. Vocalist Emily Pothast has affinities for country music, soul, and blues, but her alluring earthiness comes equipped with an equally ravishing ethereality, which complements the band's more kosmische tendencies. Throughout Midday Veil's expansive, incantatory psychedelia, analog-synth wizard David Golightly meticulously, delicately coaxes star-dusted oscillations."
-Dave Segal, The Stranger.
"Seattle's Midday Veil stops off in Portland for the first date of a West Coast tour, a jaunt that will likely squeegee clean a number of third eyes along the way. Its brand of mind-expanding psychedelia rarely gets above a snail's pace, allowing you to experience every spiraling guitar run and droning bleat of the band's vintage synthesizers, as well as the fluttering arc of Emily Pothast's space-mother vocals. It's a sound custom designed to coax you down the rabbit hole, leaving you blissfully lost in wonderland."
-Robert Ham, Willamette Week.
"...from delicate songs to full on psychedelic bliss out with great synth drones and guitar solos."
-Eric Lanzillotta, Dissonant Plane.
"If you ate some mushrooms and wanted to take a spiritual journey, this is the kind of thing you might put on the stereo. ...it would induce one hell of a trip."
-Sarah Brickner, Seattle Weekly's Reverb.
"...feels a bit like watching the birth of humanity from space."
-Joey Veltkamp, Best Of.