Singer/songwriter Tom Vek first popped up on the British music scene in 2005 with his debut album We Have Sound. The album was well received, but as quickly as he appeared, he disappeared.
After six years, he's returned with a large number of projects. They include a second album, Leisure Seizure; a track, Warning Call, on DJ Shadow's new album; and a song, Film Your Own Television, with legendary guitarist Johnny Marr as part of the Ray-Ban Raw Sounds project.
Real name: Tom Vernon-Kell Hometown: London, England Star sign: Taurus Chinese zodiac: Rooster Albums: We Have Sound (2005), Leisure Seizure (2011)
I'll describe my sound ... as a genre. I developed this theory it would be called beat rock. Sometimes it [is] called indie, but I think the word 'indie' gets [overused] quite a bit and I've always felt uncomfortable about that because I came from a rock background.
I grew up with rock music and music [with a] hard edge to it. I feel like it still comes across as an intention with the music I do.
But I also have my mind heavily [on] generating interesting beats and grooves from the fact that I drum on the music.
I like the term beat ... because it also represents this kind of self-knowing, cool, abstract, deliberately cryptic approach to words.
