VALLEY

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VALLEY

EUROPE & UK TOUR 2025

Presented by Live Nation
31.01.2025 Cologne, YUCA
Admission: 18:00 | Start: 19:00

The Canadian indie pop band Valley came together by chance and have released three full-length albums to date in addition to several singles and EPs. Their song "Like 1999" went viral on TikTok and, with 95 million streams on Spotify, is one of the band's most successful tracks, celebrating further hits with "There's Still A Light In The House" and "Oh shit...are we in love?" and the song "Homebody", which was nominated for the SOCAN Songwriting Prize in 2021. In 2020, Valley were nominated as "Breakthrough Group of the Year" at the 2020 Juno Awards and were able to confirm this status in 2022 with a Juno Awards nomination as "Group of the Year". With over 1 million streams worldwide and their current album "Water the Flowers, Pray for a Garden", the trio will be coming to Cologne and Berlin in spring 2025.

Valley formed in 2014 in Toronto, Canada, after the members of two different bands met by chance in the same studio due to a double booking. In 2015, the band led by Rob Laska (vocals & guitar), Alex Dimauro (bass & keyboard), Karah James (drums & vocals), Ben Lee (keyboard) and Michael "Mickey" Brandolino (guitar, piano, percussion) released their first EP "Car Test", which was followed by the EP "This Room Is White" in 2016, after which Ben Lee left the band. In 2018, Valley released their EP "Maybe Side A", which, with the follow-up "Maybe Side B" in 2019, led to their debut album "Maybe", which was released via Universal Music Canada and described by sputnik music as a "cinematic, pulsating pop experience". Following the release of the singles "Nevermind" and "Hiccup", the EP "sucks to see you doing better" was released in 2020, revealing a modern indie pop sound. Following the release of the singles "Like 1999", "Society" and "Tempo", Valley toured North America with Coin and released their EP "Last Birthday". Between singer-songwriter aesthetics, playful indie and modern synth-pop, the band released "Champagne" and "The Problem Song" in 2022 as rocking stand-alone singles, which laid the foundation for Valley's second album. 2023 saw the release of "Lost In Translation", on which the tracks "Break For You" and "Throwback Tears" stand out with their driving and modern indie-pop production. In March 2024, Brandolino announced he was leaving the band to focus on his career as a music producer, whereupon Valley decided to continue as a trio. "Water the Flowers, Pray for a Garden" marks the band's first album as a trio and seamlessly continues the band's alternative pop sound. With a subtle folk influence, "When You Know Someone" is the album's most successful track to date, hailed by Atwood Magazine as "breathtakingly vulnerable and therapeutic" and "the truest, most authentic version of the band".

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