Friday, July 3rd 2015 // 20:30 // Palazzo Trinci
Concert

The transformation is complete. After four years of incremental musical evolution, Vessels emerge into the light with a brave and brilliant new sound, masterfully fusing the widescreen builds and elegant breakdowns of their previous work with altogether more physical electronic rhythms. With their new album -- set for a spring 2015 release -- the band is firmly focussed on the euphoria of the dancefloor. Always a consummate live act, recent performances have been an unholy communion; two drummers front and centre, band and audience feeding off each other's energy.
Crowd reactions to live covers of James Holden’s remix of Nathan Fake’s ‘The Sky Was Pink’ and Modeselektor’s ‘Blue Clouds’ spurred them on to embrace a more kinetic approach with their own music. The Elliptic EP followed; the title track getting picked up by Berghain residents Barker & Baumecker for a stunning minimal remix (since featured on Tensnake’s Ibiza 2014 compilation). Since then they’ve remixed artists as diverse as Harry Wolfman, Nils Frahm, Maxïmo Park, Rival Consoles and Pick A Piper, cemented by a Leeds club DJ residency.
Vessels have graced stages at legendary Berlin techno club Berghain, Beat Herder, Beacons, Glastonbury and Simple Things. Like Jon Hopkins, Moderat and Caribou before them, the band has pulled off the trick of translating their intricate, sometimes epic, always uplifting studio creations to the live arena. The world is theirs for the taking.
Dilate, produced by Richard Formby (Spectrum, Ghostpoet, Wild Beasts, Darkstar), will be released in March 2015.