Velvet Vision’s Springtime Debut

by Sage Shemroske
Photo by Helen Teague

There are some mornings, despite the cold, that you wake up before your alarm. You notice the sun streaking through the blinds, and you feel strangely ok. You sit around in your room, not sure what to do with this circadian sudden free time. So you put on some music. On this particular kind of day I receive an email from Betty Taylor AKA Velvet Vision about her forthcoming self titled debut. On this particular day I do not put the email off, even though winter makes literally every task feel impossible, and I listen to the EP. Velvet Vision is effervescent, effortless, gliding around my apartment. I think Taylor, raised in Minnesota now living in New Mexico, understands the need to find the sunlight adorned moments in life and how to hold them close. Taylor reminds us that we have gotten through the loveless months every year up until now and we will again. She understands nature and people alike can always thaw and resolve into something sweeter, “I was such a different person last time” she sings on the opening track.