Formed in 2018 in Lugano, VAN COUVER have spent years distilling a musical aesthetic where early 2000s New York indie rock and the British sounds of the '90s collide. While their 2023 debut, How’s The Weather?, introduced a band capable of conjuring the ghosts of Interpol and Slowdive through tight guitars and hypnotic vocals, their recent output reflects a clearer, more focused sonic identity.
In 2024, the group pushed their boundaries with the single Belong—an indie-rock track wrapped in sharp shoegaze textures—followed in August 2025 by a reimagining of the Double classic The Captain of Her Heart for national broadcaster SSR. Today, VAN COUVER stand as a solid unit, navigating the space between melodies that are simultaneously dreamy and biting, backed by a gritty, high-energy rhythm section.
With their sophomore album, Everything Will Work Out (Eventually), the band solidifies their identity across ten tracks that explore the resilience required to remain whole during the storm. It is the sound of a band that has stopped searching for an identity and simply started playing it.
If Liam Gallagher had smoked fewer cigarettes. If Pavement had been English. If Swervedriver had been less heavy. If The Jesus and Mary Chain had been less gloomy. If all of this had happened and come together in one great creative flow, two bands would have been born: Lotus Plaza and VAN COUVER. And in a parallel and surreal reality like Italian Switzerland, fortunately, all of this was possible.
In a time where only rap seems to bring satisfaction, a nine-song album puts you back in the saddle of a bike, ready to crash with a smile because you're in your 30s and have consciously decided not to become an adult and relive what the best of the '80s and '90s kindly offered you, adding the freshness that only someone with a monstrous desire to play can transmit in a song. Someone who has spent nights and early mornings in a few square meters between cables, software, and various gadgets, releasing what churns in their stomach, heart, and head since they heard the first guitar note. If we are the generation stuck in our own adolescence, perhaps there is a reason. Because it was damn beautiful. If our memories smell of distorted guitars, bike rides, backpacks on one shoulder, old video games, early synthesizers, faded T-shirts, and perpetual melancholy, then we might as well give them the exceptionally updated version of all this, and among the best you can find out there is the album How's The Weather. A full, sincere sound, carefully crafted in its honestly DIY project, for atmospheres and philosophy. Favorite song: Marine.
- Chiara Fanetti, RSI
