A Los Angeles band that built a following through live shows, with lyrics about mental health and existence.
If you want to hear what they're about, try "The Holographic" for the full build, or "Remote And Desolate" for the raw end of things. Both give you Celeste's voice and those existential lyrics without any fluff.
The Neologist matters because they wrote songs that actually talked about the heavy stuff, existential questions, mental health, without dressing it up too much. Songs like "Remote And Desolate" and "Exiled To Nowhere" from their catalog show how they turned those themes into guitar-driven rock with Celeste's vocals right up front. They drew criticism for it sometimes, but listeners who needed that kind of honesty found them.
They formed in Los Angeles when Kira Celeste and Ethan James started writing together, with Anya Volkov on bass and Liam Hayes on drums. They put out three albums: "The Veil," "Echoes of Time," and "The Holographic," which had that title track built from piano into guitars. Along the way they worked with electronic producer Kyra Vassar and cellist Anna Willow.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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