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Article: Velvet Crush Clings to Past
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 9, 1995
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If you didn't know better, you might think that Velvet Crush's
"Teenage Symphonies to God" was a lost work from the late '60s.
After all, such songs as "Hold Me Up," "Time Wraps Around You"
or "Faster Days" boast the same kind of chiming guitars, tight
harmonies and well-crafted choruses found on the Byrds' "Turn! Turn!
Turn!" or the Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds."
But Velvet Crush couldn't have made this album back then. For
one thing, no one in the band would have been old enough.
"Actually, I think the last of us just turned 30," says bassist
Paul Chastain, over the phone from his home in Providence, R.I. "But
I think the reason we do this is that we heard this music when we
were ...