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19 Jul

“It’s impossible to describe the frenetic energy that Mauve is known to produce. It’s a mixed scream of frustration and tears of joy. [...] They’re known to draw hundreds of fans to their all-ages shows, yet have just one song posted so far online.” - PDX Presents

"Portland emo band" - Brooklyn Vegan

FFO: Riley, Michael Cera Palin, Remo Drive

Genres: Midwest Emo, Punk

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Mauve is generating a significant buzz in the DIY scene with the imminent release of their debut album, About The Weather. Despite their young age, the band members demonstrate a remarkable level of musical acumen and have already established a dedicated local fan base, partly due to their exciting live shows. Infectious hooks, shimmering guitar melodies, and dynamic rhythm section create a captivating fusion of both 90's emo à la The Promise Ring and contemporaries such as Origami Angel and Riley. With their unique take on fifth-wave emo, Mauve has the potential to become a driving force in the scene, and the release of About The Weather cements their position as an artist to watch out for.

About Mauve

If you were to look at a map, Portland, Oregon, looks pretty far away from the Midwest, but you wouldn’t know that listening to Mauve. Portland’s resident fifth-wave emo rockers formed during the pandemic and emerged from the other side with a rock-solid collection of songs in the vein of bands like Riley, Origami Angel, and Remo Drive.

Making a name for themselves playing across the Pacific Northwest in backyards, basements, and bars that the members aren’t even old enough to drink in, Mauve quickly established themselves as part of a new class of bands emerging from Portland’s bustling post-pandemic music scene. Throughout their debut album, you’ll hear jittery guitar taps and sticky vocal hooks perched atop an impressively energetic rhythm section.

Saccharine croons, cathartic group chants, and the occasional growl articulate late-teenage turmoil, transporting the listener to an alternate reality where Pacific Northwest Emo became a legitimate scene rivaling the Midwest. With any luck, there’s still time for that to happen, and when it does, Mauve will be at the forefront.

The band on the album:

“This band was originally founded on the basis of showing our own take on the direction we felt 5th wave emo could go. We wanted to make emo music with extreme attention to detail that would result in no song having what we considered a filler part. This album was ultimately our initial end goal from the very beginning of this band's inception in late 2020/early 2021.

Over the course of almost two years after forming the band, we wrote somewhere around 14 different tracks that carried this same ethos, and whittled our repertoire down to the songs we felt fully embodied our goal to the fullest, as well as those which we felt the most confident in. And slowly but surely, About The Weather was conceptualized. The album got its title from a joke Olive said at their first show before playing the song 20,000 Degrees. “This is a song about the weather” would later be a phrase revisited when deciding on album titles, and the band felt it seemed perfect to capture the essence of not only the music, but also of the area of the PNW the band resided in.

Almost none of the songs were finished when the 7-and-a-half-month-long recording process would begin. New ideas for vocals, entire lyrics to songs, drums, guitar, and bass, as well as the entire song “Slow Yer Roll”, were introduced throughout the recording process. Only 4 out of the 7 songs on the album had lyrics even half written before they had to be recorded. And almost everything accomplished in the first 5 months of recording, was scrapped and re-recorded due to none of the parties involved being very excited about the product they were seeing of their efforts up to that point. The album almost follows chronological order in which the songs were written, save for Sun, Dusk, and Dawn."

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Upcoming Dates:

July 18 - Portland, OR @ Mission Theater

July 20 - Oakland, CA @ Stay Gold

July 21 - Sacramento, CA @ House Show

July 22 - Fremont, CA @ Tamper Room

July 25 - Santa Cruz, CA @ Subrosa

July 26 - Santa Cruz, CA @ Subrosa

July 27 - Arcata, CA @ House Show

July 29 - Eugene, OR @ House Show

**All Dates With Growing Pains**

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