MUSIC

I LIKE CHRISTMAS - EP (2024)
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The Violet Archers invoke the spirit of Vince Guaraldi’s delicate piano pageantry with “I Like Christmas,” a new holiday song. This offering adds to the seasonal songbook with cozy nostalgia, joyful melody and genuine wonderment for the season. With cello, violin and trumpet lifting Vesely’s warmhearted list of humble holiday joys, “I Like Christmas” is true to its title: simple and sentimental. “I Like Christmas” will ring true for fans of holiday indie offerings in the vein of Ben Folds, Sufjan Stevens and more. 

ANIMAL SONG - EP (2023)
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“Animal Song,” is about inspiration, that unknowable innermost cavern from which creativity flows. “When inspiration comes, it comes like an animal in the night,” says Vesely.

On “Animal Song,” Vesely reunites with Sarah Harmer, who first collaborated on Rheostatics’ The Story of Harmelodia (1999). The song, released with the bonus single “Nobody Knows,” is also available in Dolby Atmos spatial audio on Apple Music.

KEEP IT IN THE GROUND - EP (2021)
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“I wanted to put my thoughts on the climate crisis down as concisely and completely as possible in a song. I started with the phrase ‘keep it in the ground’ (of course). The first guitar idea that came was upbeat and high energy and blues-based with that ‘say it, repeat it, explain it’ format. It felt right. I wanted to make it listenable. So I employed my pop sensibility for the chorus. I’m pretty satisfied with how it turned out. I don’t think of it as preachy. I think of it as me expressing myself as an individual, and then hopefully striking a chord with other people who are thinking along the same lines, and then creating a vibration that’s a little bigger than myself. A little bit hippie, but then again, I don’t know what else to do.

“Quiet This Morning” started the opposite way, with the music pretty much fully formed first. Lyrically, I ended up thinking along the same lines as “Keep It In The Ground,” but more from a post-apocalyptic perspective.

The main thought in both songs is how we have failed to appreciate how good we’ve had it, how fortunate we’ve been to have hit this sweet spot in which we’ve been able to thrive as a species. But it’s a precariously balanced sweet spot and there are physical limits to our thriving which is accelerating out of control. It’s time to take stock of all the variables and proceed with our very survival in mind. It’s just science. A cold, hard fact.” —Tim Vesely

SUNSHINE AT NIGHT (2008)
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”…a stunning sophomore album of vibrant and lush indie rock.” — Saved By Vinyl

THE END OF PART ONE (2007)
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The debut album from The Violet Archers, featuring Ida Nilsen (Great Aunt Ida) on piano and vocals, drummer Steve Pitkin, bassist Aaron MacPherson and guitarist Yawd Sylvester.