Vancouver’s Alt-Psych-Rock Band, Meltt Unveils New Album, Eternal Embers
Vancouver, BC-based alt-psych-rock band, Meltt has shared their fourteen-song LP, Eternal Embers. The album tackles topics from social media anxiety to technology addiction, and grieving over the loss of a parent from ALS.Â
Eternal Embers was originally teased with the EP, Another Quiet Sunday, written in sessions with co-producer Kieran Wagstaff. They spent a month in a remote cabin together where they feverishly wrote and shored up the foundation of the EP.  The songs just demand your attention with the hum of distorted guitars dissolving into bright melodies carried by shimmering synths. Let me know what you think.
To celebrate the release, they’re doing a North American tour starting 9/30 in Vancouver for their Desert Daze presents album release show, stops will include Los Angeles on 10/15 at Gold Diggers, part of the Desert Daze in the City Festival, and a stop at Baby’s All Right in NY.Â
Listen to Eternal Embers below and learn more about Meltt via our Five Questions With segment.
Care to introduce yourself to our readers?
Melttis a 4 piece Alternative Indie Psych Rock/ Pop band from the North Shore of Vancouver British Columbia! We formed officially in 2014 after we graduated high school. During high school James P, Chris, and I (James T) played in a cover band with a couple of other guys. Chris and I have known each other since kindergarten and played together since grade 6. After we graduated James P. moved out to Montreal for school and Chris and I stayed in Vancouver. We continued to jam together and James would write and send us some ideas from across the country. Eventually, when he came back for the summer of 2014 we decided to start writing our own music in a new band and created an EP and the rest is history!
Tell us a bit about your most recent release.
The process began around the beginning of the pandemic with the hoarding of demos by all of us in isolation. We ended up renting a cabin near Lillooet at a place called Gun Lake to work together on the project. There were probably around 50 or so ideas we presented to each other and chose 20 of the strongest to start working on. That eventually got whittled down into the 15 songs that are now Eternal Embers. From there all our energy went into refining and producing those songs to the point where we were happy with them.
Where do you tend to pull inspiration from when writing?
We all get easily obsessed with different artists and usually will stumble across something new and exciting to us while trying to hunt down what made their songs so great. It could be while learning a riff, emulating a certain style of playing, or even while trying to reverse-engineer certain sounds on synths.
Thematically our lyrics tend to be a product of the events affecting our lives at the time. Forest fires, grief, love of nature, and the perils of social media addiction all contributed heavily to Eternal Embers.
Do you have any upcoming shows you’d like to tell us about?
Not necessarily any surprises but we’re really excited to be playing the new songs for fans, we think it’s the strongest set we’ve ever put together. There are a few new places we’re hitting this tour, but we’d have to say Mexico City is the one we’re most excited for! They’ve been our #1 streaming city pretty much since anyone outside of Vancouver really started listening to us so we can’t wait to finally play for fans there!
What’s your goal for the remainder of 2023?
Mainly to have as many people connect with the new album as we can. We’re also really excited to formally start working on our next project and keep giving fans more music!