Neon Noir



There are multiple projects under the moniker VV; 1) VV is a new project of Finnish singer-songwriter and musician Ville Valo. Upon the conclusion of his previous project Ville Valo & Agents in August 2019, Valo began experimenting with recording new music in his home studio. With the onset of widespread lockdown measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, Valo self-released a three-track EP entitled Gothica Fennica, Vol. 1 under the moniker VV to gauge interest. The EP was fully produced, engineered, and performed by Valo with mixing by longtime HIM collaborator Tim Palmer. Through 2021, Valo continued recording material and negotiating distribution deals for the impending release of a full-length album, ultimately settling on his own Heartagram Records imprint publishing while distribution is handled by Universal and its subsidiary, legendary Finnish heavy metal record label Spinefarm. The album title, Neon Noir, carries over HIM's convention of combining two contradictory ideas in album titles. Neon referring to bright lighting and noir being the French word for black. The title is also a pun nodding to neo-noir films, exemplified by melodramatic storytelling and visually contrasting darkness and light. The cover photograph for the album was shot by Joonas Brandt using a Mamiya RZ67 black and white camera on Kodak Tri-X 400 film. The album will be released in limited edition vinyl, CD, and cassette formats, with packaging designed by Ville Valo and graphic designer Rami Mursula, with whom Valo has been working since HIM's 2013 release Tears on Tape. Following the release of Neon Noir on January 13, 2023, he began his Neon Noir Tour which will be taking place in Europe and North America, beginning in Tavastia, Helsinki on January 13 and ending in Irving Plaza, NY, on May 8. 2) V.V. is California sound artist Ven Voisey, whose work thoughtfully combines field recording, electronics and various instrumentation into captivating and evolving sound organisms. 3) The artist name of V.V. or VV is also aggregating a lot of mislabeled (this is a common short-spelling of Vopli's name) tracks from Vopli Vidoplyasova (Ukraine). 4) True crime no wave synth punk from haunted Richmond,VA. https://vvfaxmachine.bandcamp.com/ Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.