’90s-era indie rock / shoegazers Velocity Girl reformed last year to play a few shows and have stayed active on social media since. Today, for Bandcamp Friday, they’ve released an EP of unreleased material from the early 2000s titled Incidentals.
They write: “In 2002, about five years after breaking up, Velocity Girl reunited to play a benefit show to help out former bandmate Bridget Cross with some legal expenses. The show was recorded, and we had such a good time that we kept the reunion going for a few more months, booking another Black Cat show a few months later. We’d come up with three new songs to play for the benefit, and recorded them a few months later at Omega Studios, where Archie worked and the band rehearsed. We pretty much forgot about this stuff for twenty-plus years, at least partially because it was assumed that the digital recordings were lost or deleted. The ProTools sessions were found a few months ago on an old hard drive and some data tapes and, to our surprise, we liked what we heard.”
In addition to the three studio tracks, the EP also includes live recordings of “Sorry Again” and “Pop Loser” from that Bridget Cross benefit show at the Black Cat. Listen to the whole thing below.