The Veldt share ‘Morning, June and Yesterday’ single with Vaughan Oliver homage video
The Veldt release “Morning, June and Yesterday”, a Bandcamp-exclusive single and Vaughan Oliver homage video previewing their “Spanakopita” EP.
Dream pop and shoegaze band The Veldt have shared “Morning, June and Yesterday”, a single arriving on 7 July 2026 as a Bandcamp exclusive, alongside a video that pays homage to 4AD designer Vaughan Oliver. The track previews “Spanakopita”, a tour-exclusive release from the New York-based group led by twin brothers Daniel and Danny Chavis.
The Veldt’s ‘Morning, June and Yesterday’ single and video
“Morning, June and Yesterday” builds on cascading guitars and layered textures, the sound The Veldt have carried since their early records. The band pair the single with a video the group describe as a tribute to Vaughan Oliver, the graphic designer whose sleeve work shaped the visual identity of the 4AD label until his death in 2019.
The single is drawn from “Spanakopita”, a tour CD the band tie to their 2026 live dates, following the earlier single “Black Girl”. The current line-up adds bassist and programmer Hayato Nakao to the two founders. The Veldt cite a range of reference points across soul, gospel and experimental rock, and “Morning, June and Yesterday” keeps the group’s focus on atmosphere and groove rather than fixed genre lines.
About The Veldt
The Veldt formed in 1986 in Raleigh, North Carolina, built around identical twins Daniel Chavis (vocals, guitar) and Danny Chavis (guitar), who took the band’s name from a Ray Bradbury short story. The group issued the “Marigolds” EP in 1992 and the album “Afrodisiac” in 1994, a record produced during the height of the shoegaze era. After a pause the Chavis brothers regrouped in New York as Apollo Heights before reactivating The Veldt in 2017 with the EP “The Shocking Fuzz of Your Electric Fur: The Drake Equation”.
In November 2023 the band released “Illuminated 1989” through Little Cloud Records, an album recorded with Cocteau Twins guitarist Robin Guthrie in 1989 and remastered by Guthrie for its release. Its advance singles included “Aurora Borealis” and “The Everlasting Gobstopper”, the latter featuring a cameo from Elizabeth Fraser. “Morning, June and Yesterday” continues that run, moving the band from the archival “Illuminated 1989” toward the new material collected on “Spanakopita”.
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