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Emotion is, obviously, a spectrum. It's one that indie and alternative bands of late have learned to embrace. It's almost a response to numbness becoming the norm in popular music, headphones promoting isolation and an eventual realization that feeling needs to be experienced in its totality. Here, for The Vices, on their newest single “Before It Might Be Gone,” totality in emotion is the most freeing feeling to grant oneself. 

Hailing from Groningen, Netherlands, their brand has always seemed to find a place of comfort in the quirks and imperfections. Not only in themselves, but in others they interact with as well. As they’re gearing up for the release of an LP here in February, their newest single is high energy and as all-encompassing in its sound and in its sentiment. 

“I would give it a name / The pain won't feel the same as yesterday / Hiding out in the rain / The burns you keep inside / So they’ll stay,” frontman Floris van Luijtelaar sings, accompanied by a band that seems to feel the swell around him in every note. It's clear here that The Vices have found some contempt, or maybe even comfort, in knowing that experience shouldn’t be curated.

As The Vices continue their album rollout and a tour that sees stops in Europe as well as the United States, it's assuring that their sound is as familiar as the feelings they bring to the table. Spacey yet lived-in, there’s a lot of life to live in between the notes this squad rests their head on. More importantly, cherishing everything that's been gifted to you, good or bad, is an incredibly refreshing perspective in a sometimes bleak mode of artistic expression.