Green Lanes
Ultimate Painting is centered on the wiry guitar lines of Jack Cooper (Mazes) and James Hoare (Veronica Falls). Their economical three-minute songs echo the patient melodies of the Velvet Underground's self-titled third album and the workingman's garage-pop of New Zealand bands like the Chills and the Bats.
Presenting dark topics over blissed-out, sun-kissed melodies, the duo balance a tightrope of the spirited and the shaken.
A collaboration between Jack Cooper of Mazes and James Hoare of Veronica Falls, Ultimate Painting’s second full-length radiates a very comforting warmth.
James Hoare (Veronica Falls) and Jack Cooper (Mazes) blend Twerps' college slacker rock and The Kinks' sun-kissed melodies on their second Ultimate Painting album, Green Lanes.
Ultimate Painting’s second album is still in thrall to the Velvet Underground, and certainly has a nice line in wistful meanderings