Video Age

Video Age craft mellow synthesizer pop that draws from '80s pop, new wave, AM pop, and neighboring idioms. The New Orleans duo first surfaced in 2016 via the punk-tinged Living Alone before shifting toward jazzier guitar textures and luminous, '80s Casio-like sonorities on subsequent releases. Their Winspear debut arrived with 2020's Pleasure Line, while the broader 2023 follow-up Away from the Castle incorporated passing excursions into disco, country-rock, and additional forms. That set marked their initial effort tracked alongside the touring band in a shared space.

Ross Farbe and Ray Micarelli established Video Age in New Orleans as a songwriting partnership in which both members handle vocals and an array of instruments. Their opening full-length, Living Alone, surfaced on Inflated Records during mid-2016. Two years afterward the pair issued the gentler Pop Therapy, which featured keyboard contributions from Duncan Troast and bass work from Nick Corson, each affiliated with the Convenience. Farbe, Micarelli, Troast, and Corson all reconvened for the 2020 Winspear release Pleasure Line, again recorded and mixed by Farbe.

Following the Pleasure Line tour cycle, the duo pursued outside projects: they appeared on Drugdealer's 2022 album Hiding in Plain Sight, Farbe produced the Convenience's Accelerator (2021) and Esther Rose's Safe to Run (2023), and Micarelli performed regularly within New Orleans jazz and blues circles. Video Age next assembled inside a rented cabin in Eunice, Louisiana, once more alongside Corson and Troast. The outcome, Away from the Castle, constituted their first collection devised collectively in one room, extending their range into disco, country-rock, and further territories while preserving abundant glossy synth elements.