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Press
“10 Best Albums from Local Houston Artists of 2024”
—Joey Guerra at The Houston Chronicle
“The music feels like it’s been pulled from the depths of a forgotten dream, each note wrapped in a shroud of mystery. There’s a haunting quality to the way Raudiver blends the delicate with the dark, where the ethereal meets the eerie.”
—Alice Teeple at Post-Punk.com
“They’re taking their darker musical tendencies from the past and really pushing them forward, building songs on synthetic beats and Charlie’s distorted riff work, creating this dense brand of dark pop. Lauren’s voice continues to be the lighthouse of pop in the darkened storm of their craft.”
—Nathan Lankford at Austin Town Hall
"Using the hazy dream-pop of Lauren and Charles Eddy's beloved indie band El Lago as a sort of backdrop, Raudiver adds an electronic sheen that is both more trance-like and harder-edged."
—Chris Gray at The Houston Chronicle
“It’s a retro sound sure to please devotees of 4AD’s golden age. In the band’s noisiest moments there were hints of Jesus and Mary Chain. In its poppiest, Echo & the Bunnymen.“
—Sid Sowder at Too Much Rock
Bio
Named after ghostly voices, Raudiver traces a winding path through goth pop and darkwave, with ethereal vocals and hazy shoegaze textures anchored by danceable beats.
Married duo Lauren Villarreal Eddy and Charlie Eddy push through their shoegaze/dream pop origins in EL LAGO to explore new and more personal expressions, crafting songs from a Victorian studio that weathered the 1900 Storm on Galveston Island.
The debut record Leave Before Dark is available now on Geodesic Records, and was selected as a Top 10 Album of 2024 from Houston Artists in The Houston Chronicle.
The duo is now touring in support of the album, and has played shows with Provoker, Haunt Me, MVTANT, A Split-Second, TEMPTRIX, Nite, and more.
Live Photos by Graham W. Bell
Portraits by Charlie Don’t
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