THE VELDT – “MORNING, JUNE AND YESTERDAY”
A SPILL EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE
The Veldt return with “Morning, June and Yesterday”, a recording that drifts in a suspended state of atmosphere and motion. Built on blurred guitar textures and an understated rhythmic pull, it unfolds gradually, prioritizing texture and mood over immediacy. Given its inheritance of the dreamlike lineage of A.R. Kane, Cocteau Twins and Lush, it should come as no surprise that the video pays homage to iconic graphic designer Vaughan Oliver, whose visual style defined the aesthetic of the 4AD record label.
This immersive single arrives alongside a new video and previews their tour-only CD release Spanakopita EP. The limited nature of the release adds a sense of distance to music that otherwise feels expansive and enveloping, reinforcing the idea of something both intimate and just out of reach, like a transmission from another room that still somehow fills the entire space.
At the center of The Veldt are twins Daniel Chavis and Danny Chavis, whose approach has long pushed shoegaze into more soulful and rhythm-conscious territory, and Hayato Nakao. Together, they shape a sound where dense guitar work and subtle electronic frameworks coexist without hierarchy. It feels like a fully realized sonic language rather than a style being performed, a five-star level transmission of atmosphere and intent.
Rather than relying on nostalgia, the track emphasizes space, repetition, and slow evolution. Elements enter and recede with restraint, giving the impression of a piece constantly re-forming itself rather than moving toward a fixed endpoint. Each return feels slightly altered, as if memory itself is doing the arranging.
The accompanying video extends that sensibility, treating image and sound as overlapping layers rather than a linear narrative. Light, motion, and texture blur together in a way that mirrors the music’s refusal to stay still, reinforcing the sense that meaning here is something felt rather than decoded.
Released through Little Cloud Records and 5BC Records, the single underscores The Veldt’s continued expansion of their sonic language. “Morning, June and Yesterday” suggests not a reinvention but a widening—an opening of space within an already fully formed aesthetic, where every detail feels deliberate but never fixed.
Released as a tour-exclusive CD, Spanakopita features new tracks and experimental demos that The Veldt curated especially for US and Canadian tour dates they just completed with post-punk legends The Chameleons, underscoring The Veldt’s enduring relevance, continued artistic momentum and expanding horizons.
The EP includes mixes by Carlos Bess, engineer for the Wu-Tang Clan production circle, along with Will Brooks (Dälek) and Jason Furlow (aka Nosaj) of New Kingdom, also known for his new project Wave Generators and his work with Morcheeba. Their involvement helped shape the project’s evolving fusion of post-punk atmosphere and DJ-culture experimentation—an approach developed through ongoing collaboration over the years working as a production team Illuminutty (a.k.a. VELDT).
The Veldt’s music career has been rich, gradually building a solid legacy. Pitchfork included The Veldt’s album Afrodisiac, produced by the legendary Ray Shulman (The Sundays, Bjork, The Sugarcubes) in the top 50 shoegaze albums ever released, while Stereogum included “Until You’re Forever” in the top 31 shoegaze tracks. Their recent Illuminated 1989 album, produced by Cocteau Twins’ Robin Guthrie, was also widely acclaimed with support on six continents.
Across their long arc, The Veldt have consistently occupied a rare position in alternative music, bridging shoegaze’s early atmospheric experiments with a deeper rhythmic and emotional range. Their work has always resisted simple categorization, instead existing as a continuous process of refinement, return, and expansion—music that feels less like it belongs to a moment and more like it’s always arriving into one.
As of July 7, “Morning, June and Yesterday” is available as a Bandcamp exclusive. The Spanikopita CD itself can only be obtained at The Veldt live shows.
CREDITS
Written, Recorded & Mixed by Illuminutty (Doityodamnself Prod)
Performed by Nakao Hayato, Danny Chavis & Daniel Chavis
“Evergreen” mixed by Dälek (Will Brooks)
“Dakini (Remix)” by Carlos Bess & Jason Furlow
Produced by Illuminutty (Doityodamnself Prod) aka VELDT
Mastered by James Populos (Populis Recording)
Artwork & Layout by Danny Chavis, Joe Nesbitt & Butterfly Soup Ltd.
“Black Girl” video by Rob Weiss & James Eakins
“Morning, June And Yesterday” video by Danny Chavis
Publicity by Shameless Promotion PR
Copyright 5BC / Little Cloud 2026
While you are here, we also recommend soaking up the silky soul-gaze splendour of their latest single “Black Girl”, the video for which was created by Rob Weiss and James Eakins, reinterpreting themes from the 1972 film ‘Black Girl’, as well as another previous stunner “Black and Blue”, created by Yuko Sueta:
The Veldt
[Single]
(Little Cloud Records/5BC Records)
Release Date: July 7, 2026
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Background Photo Credit: James Neumann
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