Painted Veils is the debut EP by For Joris, the moniker of alternative singer, songwriter, and producer Robert Pruett. Born of time-honored suburban ennui and bedroom artist insularity, For Joris began life as a traditional singer-songwriter project called The Northern Rail. A move to the Pacific Northwest altered its DNA – darker, more mystical shapes began to form in Olympia, Washington’s cauldron of dark magic, radical environmentalism, and the late-night, bleary-eyed café study sessions of a European literature student.
Washington woods gave way to south London’s sprawl. Influences deepened, informed by continued studies at Goldsmiths College of nineteenth-century France and England’s occult revival. Urbanity demanded change; a band dissolved into a single piano, a solitary room, the soft glow of production software on screen. Daily life immersed in the pursuit of knowledge necessitated an escape into art, with the art grounding itself in pages from another time and place.
One completed thesis later (its subject, the writer Joris-Karl Huysmans, inspired the project’s name), Pruett returned to California. Two years of work resulted in the six tracks of Painted Veils, a dual travel diary and ode to stasis. The record is steeped in the dramatic and literary flourishes of Kate Bush, the pop sensibility of Depeche Mode, the baroque hues of This Mortal Coil, the aggressive weight of Killing Joke.
First single Holly in the Reins explores the seductive magnetism of romantic entrapment and upheaval. A male and female duet struggle to find each other in love's innavigable wasteland, responding to a far-away voice that asks "where will you hide?".
Decadent art’s gilded excess creeps into the music; paint-smear synths are given shape by urgent drum machines; film samples and abstract lyrics tell a story that we can see, but not touch. Songs pass like scenes outside a train window at night; vivid, real, but impressionistic, fleeting. Painted Veils is the sum of specific times and places, distorted into new shapes by the romance of nowhere in particular.
Tracklist:
1. Holly In The Reins (3:02)
2. Coronation Room (3:30)
3. Deep Dark (3:54)
4. Gold & Black (3:41)
5. A Coin In Nine Hands (3:12)
6. Brokenhearted Wild (3:09)
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