For their second album, post-rockers VLMV, pronounced ‘Alma’, have taken a different tack. Their first record, Stranded, Not Lost, was a guitar-heavy affair that relied on loop pedals to build its ambient soundscapes. For all their richness and complexity, most of their songs were still playable by two musicians with guitars.
“Writing-wise it started as a solo thing,” explains primary songwriter Pete Lambrou, “and I persuaded Ciaran [Morahan] to join, because I was always a fan of his screwdriver guitar-playing antics from [the pair’s other band] Codes In The Clouds. So I think he elevated the songs that were there. He turned them from maybe being a bit too wet into something a little bit darker, but certainly