Who: ARBES
Dream Pop
Arbes is a pop group that understands the alchemy of texture. Comprised of vocalist and bassist Jess Zanoni, drummer Anita Agathangelou, and guitarists Sam Pannifex & Ryan Basile, Arbes invites listeners into an unusual sonic world of atmospheric depth. Comparisons can be drawn to New York post-punk of a more colourful bent, running Blondie all the way through to Gang Gang Dance. Most prominent is the sense of something blissfully airborne tugged gently to the earth; that is Arbes’ own region. Their EPs Swimmer and Psalms remain Bandcamp dream-pop bestsellers. Their forthcoming debut album converge the mythical and the urban: dense, ghostly reverberation meets the functional whirring of a city. Arbes create subtly forward-facing pop music, for its shape, its mood, but especially for its way of quietly inserting complications.