“The new record is called For Real and it is a whirlwind of psychedelia, smooth guitar playing, and gentle yet confident vocals…I often categorize music in my head with colors and this record is a rainbow. It refuses to be cornered into one sound, style, or mood, and instead remains a living and breathing thing that grows…The whole album is great, but my standout track would probably be “Bought It Online,” a slow and relaxed piece that makes you see some new shapes and colors.”
– RVA Mag feature by Griffin Smalley
“The Room Where It Happened”
Interview with Style Weekly
SW: Were the songs written over a concentrated period of time?
VP: “This is honestly crazy to say out loud, because it feels so antithetical to how most music is made, and it sounds overly dramatic, but I kid you not, it was a two-week period. I did nothing else… All that stuff came up at once. The benefit to writing all that and recording it right away is it feels unified. It’s all my brain, my feelings in that moment, that snapshot of me then. It has that unified feel, which I’ve always been striving for. But it’s much easier when you just write it all at once and then just do it right there. I don’t know if I’d be able to do that again, because it was a uniquely painful and weird thing, and hopefully I don’t have to deal with those feelings again.”
“Valentin Prince thoroughly impresses with a range of quality songwriting throughout his self-titled album, delighting across a range of colorful rock-forward enthusiasm and haunting folk intrigue alike.”
Full album review here.
“It’s as though Valentin Prince has reached into the early 1970s to pluck the succulent fruit from the creamy-rhythm-section forest, with shimmering guitar frosted across the peak of this exquisite dessert for the earholes.”
– Up To Hear review
“…playful instrumentation…whimsical style…this is just the beginning for Valentin Prince.”
– Fusionostalgia review
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