Minimal Wave Records

We’re very proud to an­noun­ce a new re­lease by the UK duo known as The KVB via our sub­label Citit­rax. Com­bin­ing shoegaze guitars, minim­al synth melod­ies, hy­pnotic drum mac­hine rhy­thms and re­verb drenched voc­als, The KVB was first for­med in 2010 as the solo pro­ject of Klaus Von Bar­rel. He was later joined by his girlfriend Kat Day, who added syn­thesiz­ers and ab­stract visu­al ele­ments. Their sound can be de­scribed as dark, layered, com­plex and moody – an icy at­mosphere jux­taposed by the warmth of dis­tor­ted guitars.

Aside from ac­tive­ly tour­ing, they have had quite a few re­leases in this short time span, in­clud­ing a li­mited edi­tion cas­sette on FLA Re­cords (“The Black Sun”), a 10” vinyl EP on Downwards Re­cords (“Into The Night”) and two re­leases on Clan De­stine Re­cords (“Sub­jec­tion/Subor­dina­tion” and “Al­ways Then”). In­spired by what we heard on these re­leases along with the re­cent in­clus­ion of Dayzed on Downward’s So Click Heels Com­pila­tion, we felt the time was right to pre­sent a full length album of The KVB’s latest materi­al. The re­cord will be pre­ssed on 180 gram ultra clear vinyl, housed in a high gloss prin­ted heavy sleeve, li­mited to 999 co­p­ies. Sound sam­ples li­nked below.

Aside from the 8 tracks featured on the Im­materi­al Vis­ions LP, we’re also happy to an­noun­ce that there will be a li­mited edi­tion vinyl re­lease of re­mixes of select tracks from the album. The re­lease will in­clude re­mixes by Regis, Silent Ser­vant, In Aeter­nam Vale, and Shif­ted and will be avail­able as a 12” EP. More news on this soon.