The Veldt - Entropy Is The Mainline To God
Entropy Is The Mainline To God by The Veldt*Repress Performing since they were children, the Chavis brothers’ musical roots lead back to the church and southern juke-joints, and listening to music that included gospel, Motown and Pink Floyd. The Veldt formed in the late 80’s in Raleigh amongst the legendary North Carolina music scene of the time, initially signing with Mammoth Records - leading to a chain of major-label relationships (and major-label failures) that took the group across Europe and the U.S. playing shows with the likes of Throwing Muses, Pixies, Cocteau Twins, and Jesus & Mary Chain. The major labels’ dependence on shake-and-bake musical formulas left the band to work with a variety of indie labels after the release of their 1994 LP ‘Afrodisiac,’ cited by Pitchfork as one of the top 50 shoegaze albums of all-time. After the release of 1998’s “Love at First Hate,” the band’s last full-length album, The Veldt briefly changed their name to Apollo Heights and released t