Die Alone EP: Waiting for Nightfall

"Songwriter + musician specializing in nu-gaze gloom-pop." You can find her on Facebook at https://m.facebook.com/jennieveemusic.

From Toronto/NYC based project The Vicious Guns, Jennie Vicious - now Jennie Vee - has now come out and released her solo Die Alone EP earlier in October. It embodies a new refreshing spirit, and a somewhat different sound. Love's Sweet Exile, TVG's only LP, has a more electronic bend, involves more instruments, Jennie's vocals are more throaty in lower registers, but the same warm sweet spirit and full guitar sound of hers carry over to Die Alone. Within five rapid, concise pop songs drenched in shoegaze and post-punk influence, she gently plays with ideas of black and white, light and dark, brokenness and inner peace. Layers of rapid guitars radiate like the residue heat found in a West Coast sunset, and layers of singsong, languid melodies echo through the ether. Her lyrics hold remnants of all kinds of heart ache, bittersweet and nostalgic at the same time.

1. Die Alone: Energetic guitars roll out as percussion glides on the sound waves of the bass. This song thinks about the singular state of man's heart, "You live alone, you die alone..." before coming to a slurring stop.

2. Wicked: A song of unrequited love and warning, where angelic voices breathe on guitars laced with the kind of energy one would call "running on steam". "There's no rest for the wicked, no sleep for the blessed..."

3. Red Flags: A slower ballad with more frank, heart-on-sleeve lyrics. "All my life I've been struggling to pay attention to the small things and big decisions..."

4. Say Goodbye: A heartfelt song with a dainty rhythm, that captures the point at which one decides to finally work on getting over someone they love. Repeating to herself the title of the song, in order not to divert from her realization. "I'll cry until I'm satisfied..."

5. Gone Away: A sister song to Say Goodbye, with a darker-colored tonality. "I would lay down sprawled out naked in front of you..."

A chapter of Jennie's own life is setting like the sun, evident from this debut, as she waits for night to fall, to eventually bring a new day and new opportunity to heal and be better.

You can purchase the EP for $4 at jennievee.bandcamp.com.