Vetchinsky Settings is the quiet meeting point between two longtime maestros of British indie pop: James Hackett, the unmistakable voice of The Orchids, and Mark Tranmer, the composer behind GNAC and half of The Montgolfier Brothers. Together, they build songs like small, perfectly-kept rooms -soft light through thin curtains, dust drifting, memories laid out carefully on the table. Their album Underneath the Stars, Still Waiting (2019) unfolds like a film that never raises its voice. Divided into four movements – birth, love, grief, and death – it sketches a life in miniature, lingering on the pauses between events rather than the events themselves. Hackett sings with the tenderness of someone opening a letter kept too long in a drawer, while Tranmer’s arrangements glide with the calm, deliberate grace of late-evening streets after the rain. There’s a sense, throughout, of time slowing down: melodies that seem to hesitate before resolving, pianos that wander like thoughts half-remembered, strings that appear only when absolutely necessary. Nothing is rushed; nothing is overstated. The duo carries forward the tradition of melancholic British chamber-pop, but with a cinematic poise that feels both intimate and expansive. Vetchinsky Settings created a magnificent album that draws heavily from their respective bands’ work, offering languid ballads and dreamy, melancholic piano passages, sparkling and inspired pop melodies, and restrained, refined arrangements. A nostalgic vision of life that is neither meant to be consolatory nor cynical. Like life, indeed. Now they’re back with a glorious new single, In The Evening Light, which will be released tomorrow, November 28th. We’re honoured, though, to have it on world premiere here with the magnificent video made by Isobel Blank!