Brain Worms

by RVG

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Roger Hartley This is really terrific. Saw them with Rolling Blackouts in Washington DC years ago and just am a fan. Favorite track: Squid.

Mt.Vic.Matt It’s easily one of the best things I’ve heard this year. Feels immediately familiar. This is superb, top shelf, aussie Indie alt pop/rock. A definite contender for album of the year for me… Favorite track: Nothing Really Changes.

bernd99 How fucking great is this band !

Linda Linda Linda Gritty and authentic, their sound reaches down to lift up their listeners. Romy’s lyrics transcend murky depths that resonate in the void and create light that can’t be extinguished. Raw passion elevates, breaks down, puts back together, and collectively connects us to something unspeakably profound. For a while things make sense. Favourite tracks are impossible to settle on as newness keeps being gleaned. Layers upon endless layers of majesty. Favorite track: Common Ground.

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	1.	Common Ground 03:20
	2.	Midnight Sun 03:04
	3.	It's Not Easy 03:08
	4.	Tambourine 03:19
	5.	Brain Worms 02:09
	6.	You're The Reason 03:35
	7.	Squid 04:47
	8.	Giant Snake 03:00
	9.	Nothing Really Changes 04:41
	10.	Tropic of Cancer 03:36

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*PRE-ORDER SHIPS June 2nd 2023*

A pivotal record for contemporary times; bright, free, adamant, optimistic. Brain Worms is RVG’s fullest, most pristine album yet.
All throughout Brain Worms, it’s apparent that this is a band in very fine form. Album opener ‘Common Ground’ sets the tone for what’s to come; a shiny, thrilling, punch of an album, with all the beloved RVG hallmarks. Vager’s voice is unfiltered and commanding as ever when delivering her clever, not-quite-ironic lyrics. Here, though, those lyrics feel so much less resigned to yearning, and so much more defiant and joyous.
‘Tambourine’ is the only Covid song Vager wrote when “trying not to write Covid songs”, and it’s a painfully honest portrait of grieving mid-isolation. ‘Brain Worms’ tells the all-too-familiar story of a person falling down the internet rabbit hole and finding comfort in conspiracies. ‘Nothing Really Changes’ is a keys-heavy new wave-ish thing, while closer ‘Tropic of Cancer’ sparkles with Vager’s self-assured new manifesto: I know what I’m like, and I know how I get. If you think I’m strange, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
“A calling card for outsiders... dynamic and vital post-punk" The Guardian
Bloxham, Nolte, and Wallace are flawlessly adept in bringing Vager’s songwriting to life. Recorded in London at Snap Studios with James Trevascus (Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Billy Nomates), all ten tracks surge with lush sounds and clear intentions — and the magic of an acoustic guitar once owned by Kate Bush, given to her by Tears for Fears (who, legend has it, wrote ‘Everybody Wants to Rule the World’ on it).
Between the four bandmates — lead singer and guitarist Vager, guitarist Reuben Bloxham, drummer Marc Nolte and bassist Isabele Wallace — this is the most confident they’ve ever felt in RVG. They’ve moved past their influences, pushed themselves, and tried new things. And they have made a record they can, by all accounts, call their best.
“Brain Worms feels like the antithesis to what a post-pandemic record could easily be. For a band who were already writing music about being reclusive — “we were depressed and not going outside on our first two albums” — the enforced isolation and time to think gave Vager space to write about anything she wanted. And, it turned out, she was ready to write about acceptance.
“If we could only make one more album, it would be this one,” says Vager.

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released June 2, 2023

Written by Romy Vager
Produced by James Trevascus
Mixed by James Trevascus
Mastered by Grant Berry

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RVG Preston, Australia

RVG’s highly-anticipated third album is named Brain Worms for the hyper-recognisable experience of, each day, baring witness to a world of private obsessions being aired out in the infinite. This is the most confident RVG have felt. They’ve moved past their influences, pushed themselves, and tried new things. And they have made a record they can, by all accounts, call their best. ... more

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Sep 30

Newcastle University - Bar on the Hill

Newcastle, NSW
Oct 07

Northcote Theatre

Northcote, VIC
Oct 14

University of Wollongong

Wollongong, NSW
Oct 21

Jive

Adelaide, SA
Nov 09

The White Hotel

Salford, UK
Nov 12

The Green Door Store

Brighton, UK
Nov 15

Toekomstmuziek

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nov 16

Stroomhuis

Eindhoven, Netherlands
Nov 17

Molotow Skybar

Hamburg, Germany
Nov 22

Urban Spree

Berlin, Germany
Nov 24

La Parenthèse

Nyon, Switzerland
Nov 27

Sala El Sol

Madrid, Spain
Nov 28

Razzmatazz 3

Barcelona, Spain
Dec 02

Café de la Danse

Paris, France

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