"The music moved slowly and even more slowly: a series of dirges methodically flooded with massed-guitar crescendos of tolling chords and distortion...the tone was of shared dread, gathering and eventually imploding, then subsiding in the aftermath. Mr. Chesnutt’s grainy voice — weathered, unblinking and sometimes breaking into a desolate howl — gave the songs just enough focus, with verbal imagery to justify the apocalyptic interludes. The songs ... contemplated not just mortality but also the broader inevitability of collapse and decay." (Jon Pareles, New York Times Oct 27 2009)
The backing musicians (Guy Picciotto (Fugazi) & members of Thee Silver Mt. Zion/godspeed you! black emperor & Witchies) that came together with Vic to record Vic's acclaimed 2007 release North Star Deserter, live in concert in the North Star State! They reunited in Montreal earlier this year to record Vic's latest project, At The Cut, out now on Constellation. Quirky, idiosyncratic, sometimes harrowing, and definitely one-of-a-kind, Vic's is a voice to be heard and savored in a world of conformity.
"The music moved slowly and even more slowly: a series of dirges methodically flooded with massed-guitar crescendos of tolling chords and distortion...the tone was of shared dread, gathering and eventually imploding, then subsiding in the aftermath. Mr. Chesnutt’s grainy voice — weathered, unblinking and sometimes breaking into a desolate howl — gave the songs just enough focus, with verbal imagery to justify the apocalyptic interludes. The songs ... contemplated not just mortality but also the broader inevitability of collapse and decay." (Jon Pareles, New York Times Oct 27 2009)
