IDEAL HOME NOISE, by Vera Ellen
Vera Ellen emerged from the folk and indie pop scene in Pōneke, Wellington, recorded and toured with her high school band Maple Syrup and has established herself in the Los Angeles feminist collective Girl Friday.
Her 2021 album appropriated and adapted snatches of Velvet Underground reductivism, Bangles-like), astutely winding them into an intelligent, personal song cycle.