The vacant lots

Influenced by groups such as Bo Diddley, The Doors, The Stooges, and Spacemen 3, the alternative rock sound of Burlington, Vermont duo The Vacant Lots is made up of Jared Artaud and 17 year old drummer Brian Macfadyen. Combining minimal drumming, hypnotic guitar riffs, electronic drones, poetry-driven lyrics, and live film projections, The Vacant Lots introduced themselves in 2009 with their first studio album, The Vacant Lots. 7 tracks capturing the band's raw intensified dark pop sound. Featuring songs that deal with love, despair, revolt and death such as "Put Your Head On The Floor" and "Love/s Labour Lost."
Later that year, The Vacant Lots released their second record According To The Gospel, and were invited to open for Dean and Britta in New York. In 2010, a third album Hypnotized was released. Then in the spring of 2010 the duo were handpicked by Sonic Boom (of Spacemen 3) to tour with his band Spectrum.
Hypnotized was to become a defining release for The Vacant Lots which saw the band exploring minimalist psychedelic layerings of sound in an atmosphere that evokes a marriage of early rock n roll song structures and Indian inspired ragas with waves of sound deeply rooted in the intensity and simplicity of Howlin' Wolf era blues. Exemplified in songs like "When The Lord Comes" and "Confusion." The latter was featured on Pitchfork's Forkcast : Altered Zones August 2010 Mix.

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