Rise Together by Vlor

Vlor originally formed in the early 1990s as a typical high school alternative band of the era (though doing covers of Bauhaus & The Cure instead of Nirvana & Pearl Jam). It's second incarnation a few years later was shoegaze built around acoustic guitars with members Brian John Mitchell & Russell Halasz. The current incarnation started in 2006 & has been a series of long distance collaborations with Mitchell sharing minimalist song structures to be built up by friends.

Rise Together started with Mitchell collaborating with Jesse Gray (Dead Man's Tuning) & Philip Polk Palmer for a Remora piece on a shoegaze compilation, but in the end the piece ("My Great Mistake") transformed not to really fit as shoegaze nor a Remora song & the ball started rolling with various song ideas & bringing other collaborators into the mix. Darin DePaolo (Unspeakable Forces), Jim DeJong (The Infant Cycle, The Sand Rays),Andy N (Ocean In A Bottle), Elliot Adams Palmer, Shaun Sandor (Promute), Nic Slaton (slicnaton), & Evgeny Zheyda (Thorn1) filled out the project for a mix of cinematic experimental post punk. Zone out & imagine the unmade film this was meant to score.

Tracklist

1.	Stargruv	3:04

2.	Decaying Machines	3:38

3.	Great Mistake	1:42

4.	Rise Together	2:40

5.	Interstellar Object	4:43

6.	Phaedo	2:45

7.	Rounding Up	2:29

8.	The Ground Is Frozen	3:00

9.	Drifting Up	3:21

10.	My Great Mistake	1:41

11.	Copy of A Saint	9:09

12.	The One	1:47

Credits

released November 20, 2025

Jim DeJong - guitars, synthesizers
Darin DePaolo - guitars
Jesse Gray - guitars, synthesizers
Brian John Mitchell - synthesizers, percussion, vocals, engineering
Andy N - synthesizers
Elliot Adams Palmer - synthesizers
Philip Polk Palmer - bass guitars, guitars, percussion, synthesizers, vocals
Shaun Sandor - guitars
Nic Slaton - bass guitars
Evgeny Zheyda - guitars, synthesizers, percussion, vocals

special thanks to Nathan Amundson & Brian McKenzie

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