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New Video: Miki Berenyi Trio Shares Dreamy and Meditative “Vertigo”

Miki Berenyi Trio features an acclaimed and accomplished group of artists:

  • Miki Berenyi (vocals/ guitar), a founding member, frontperson and rhythm guitarist of acclaimed and iconic shoegazer outfit Lush — and the founder and frontperson of acclaimed outfit Piroshka
  • Kevin “Moose” McKillop (guitar), a founding member of acclaimed shoegazers Moose, Berenyi’s spouse and Piroshka bandmate
  • Oliver Cherer (bass)
  • Michael Conroy (bass), a member of beloved post punk outfit Modern English, who had a stint as McKillop’s bandmate in Moose and sat in on Lush’s last live show ever — and a member of Piroshka with Berenyi and McKillop, will be joining the band for their forthcoming Stateside tour

The trio’s first official single “Vertigo,” is a gorgeous and meditative track anchored around skittering heartbeat-like thump, atmospheric synths, swirling shoegazer guitar textures. The song’s arrangement and production serves as an atmospheric yet lush bed for Berenyi’s imitable ethereal and yearning delivery talking herself — and all of us, really — down from the precipice of endless anxiety and dread.

“Vertigo” has been a part of the band’s live set for over a year, and is one o the first songs they wrote together. “‘Vertigo’ is about anxiety and the efforts to talk myself down from the precipice – the usual cheerful stuff,” Berenyi explains. Talking about the recording process, she adds, ““It’s a challenge to not have a drummer, and to use more programming, but the essence of the music is still guitars and melody – as it always has been, particularly in mine and Moose’s bands.” 

The accompanying video was filmed by French director Sébastien Faits-Divers in Dijon‘s Consortium Museum (Contemporary Art Center) in one of the Isabella Ducrot exhibition rooms, capturing the trio performing the song in the round — and surrounded by remarkably childlike and dream-like art.