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Outdoor Velour
12+ albums
indie pop80sindiealternativeshoegaze
about
Outdoor Velour began life, like many bands, as pieces of confetti leftover from the breakup party thrown for another act. Greg Simpson, half of the current Outdoor Velour lineup, recruited Cara Kinnally in 2008 to play bass and sing with a band Greg was playing drums for. That band’s inevitable breakup gave rise to Outdoor Velour. Anyone who has ever spent time trying to tour with a band full of different personalities knows that sometimes smaller is better. By some miracle, the two members of Outdoor Velour have the natural ability to play every instrument they wanted to include on the upcoming Portrait EP. Outdoor Velour perform as a duo but sound at times like a quintet. Outdoor Velours’ first shows happened in December of 2010—the songs played in those first three appearances eventually became the band’s debut EP Don't Panic, released February 8th, 2011. They spent that year playing all over Indiana and the Midwest, promoting the just-released EP and spending what little spare time they had writing new songs. Thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign, Greg and Cara headed to Apocalypse Cow studios in Montgomery, IL and spent two days in June of 2012 tracking four new songs, the forthcoming Portrait EP. The cover of Portrait is, well, an actual custom portrait of the two band members and their beloved pets, made in the style of the classic painting American Gothic. The cover was put together for the band by Indianapolis-based artist Candice Hartsough McDonald. Port
