Lace by Family Vision
Family Vision channel the tension and pulse of a disillusioned reality, charging forth with meticulous, jittery guitars and raw reflections on strained social life. With sharp-edged, digital post-punk, their music sits at the intersection of urgency and honesty, featuring metallic riffs, anchoring basslines, and lyrics that waver between detachment and defiance.
Forming in North Carolina before solidifying their lineup in Brooklyn, the band has maintained a reputation across the East Coast for intensely locked-in performances. With Kabir Kumar-Hardy (vocals/guitar), Dan Howard (drums), Jeremy Kleiman (guitar) and Ben Guterl (bass), their high-BPM rhythms are laced with abstract, electronic sounds, quieting the noise of city chaos. Blending a variety of influences, everything from Women’s dissonant sound to the deconstructive nature of HTRK and even the storytelling of Lil Uzi Vert, Family Vision bring it all to the stage with precision.
With their latest EP, Lace, the band sharpen their sound and message, working it all out over five timely, tightly wound tracks. The project was made at Chateau Grand in Brooklyn with Dan as both producer and drummer. After recording each track, they began sampling, stretching, and chopping everything to digitally manipulate their acoustic recordings, giving the songs an unnatural, mechanized feel.
Reflecting on the grief that follows love and loss, Kabir lyrically zeroed in on incomprehensible traits like control, jealousy, and desire to unpack how they manifest in a time of vanity and societal distrust. Vignettes of awkward party spats, relationships poisoned by unbridled ambition, and struggles with self-discipline are soundtracked by unrelenting rhythm and shiny, amphetamine-fueled guitars. Lace tightly stitches all of these ideas together, creating an anxiety filled environment of clashing metals and fast paced movement, emitting hope for what’s to come.
Tracklist
| 1. | Lace Pt. 1 | 2:25 |
| 2. | Pawn | 1:49 |
| 3. | Diamond | 1:44 |
| 4. | Sharpest Edge | 1:55 |
| 5. | Lace Pt. 2 | 2:31 |
Credits
Written by Kabir Kumar-Hardy
Produced by Daniel Howard
