VICE Exclusive: Relax and Listen to Valet’s Dreamy Space Rock

I don’t smoke much weed, so I love bands that make me feel slowed-down and stoned—it’s a great way to save money and avoid having dozens of unidentified bike messengers showing up at my home address. Valet is one of those bands. They combine the spaced out, slowcore vibes of Spacemen 3, Galaxie 500, and Duster, with My Bloody Valentine or Swirlies’s female-fronted shoegaze.

Valet is releasing a record on Kranky Records, an excellent label who championed Deerhunter, Low, and Stars of the Lid. The album is slow, psychedelic, and sure to inspire both spiritual feelings and a deep desire to go outside and look at trees, which is what the band is doing in their press photo. Their new record, Nature, which drops May 25, is fantastic. This is an exclusive track, “Tranformation”. Listen to it.

Preorder it here.