One of Seattle’s most inspirational psychedelic bands, Midday Veil, commissioned a video of their song “Asymptote II” to local design collective Dumb Eyes, and the results are mind-boggling. Feast your eyes on its kaleidoscopic, strobokinetic, color-orgiastic splendor below.

“Asymptote II” paraphrases the rhythm of the Beatles’ “Tomorrow Never Knows” and gives that 1966 classic strong doses of 21st-century sizzle; Timm Mason's ululating, horn-like guitar solo especially catapults the song into the fiery ether. The track ascends and blossoms spectacularly, adding layers of excitement with each passing minute; it recalls the Velvet Underground's "Sister Ray" in the way that each player appears to be trying to out-intensify the others. "Asymptote II" will have you tumbling endorphin-over-endorphin into higher consciousness.

Midday Veil have an album release party for their debut album proper, Eyes All Around (Translinguistic Other Recordings), set for Nov. 13 at the Comet, a show that launches their West Coast tour. The LP comes out that day; the CD version will be available Oct. 11.

Asymptote (part 2) by Midday Veil

Eyes All Around by Midday Veil

Press release after the cut.

MIDDAY VEIL ANNOUNCES STUDIO ALBUM, FALL TOUR DATES, AND VIDEO PREMIERE

Oct. 11 - "Eyes All Around" CD release
Nov. 13 - LP release (limited edition white vinyl with download card)
tour dates + video link and free MP3 downloads for bloggers below

Eluding tidy categorization, Seattle underground synth-rock purveyors Midday Veil have been making [heavily modulated] waves in the Northwest psych scene since 2008. Known for ambitious performances featuring a multimedia spectacle of sight and sound, Midday Veil draws from an ever-deepening well of influences including 20th century avant-garde composition, krautrock, folk, blues, noise, new age, metal, and various kinds of non-Western and traditional music.

Midday Veil's debut studio album Eyes All Around is currently available for preorder via records.translinguisticother.com. Produced and engineered by Mell Dettmer at Aleph Studios (Sunn O))), Kinski, Jesse Sykes), Eyes All Around is at its deceptively groovy heart a concept album of sorts, rooted in the prehistoric tradition of music-as-journey-through-underworld and refracted through the lens of multiple layers of technology and 1960s artifacts like Joseph Byrd's American Metaphysical Circus.

"Seattle's Midday Veil keep on ascending to higher levels of heightened-awareness psychedelia that's as beautiful and majestic as a satellite photo of Jupiter's moons." - Dave Segal, The Stranger

"...in my mind, Seattle's most promising new band. ...what I like about watching a band like Midday Veil is the sense that something different is going on." - John Gillanders, Redefine Magazine

Midday Veil Fall 2010 Tour Dates:
Oct. 23 - SEATTLE, WA - Portable Shrines Escalator Fest with Moon Duo, The Curious Mystery, Edibles and Climax Golden Twins
Nov. 13 - SEATTLE, WA - Record release at Comet Tavern with Master Musicians of Bukkake and Arrington de Dionyso
Nov. 17 - PORTLAND, OR - The Know
Nov. 18 - SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Hemlock Tavern
Nov. 19 - OAKLAND, CA - ABCo ArtSpace with Sequin Trails and Magic Leaves
Nov. 20 - SACRAMENTO, CA - The HUB with Art Lessing and the Flower Vato and Little Teeth

Translinguistic Other Recordings
p.o. box 23326 Seattle WA 98102
translinguisticother@gmail.com