City Link Magazine – Five South Florida Acts You Need to Know in 2011
LAVOLA
In 2010, Palm Beach County spawned a batch of weird and wonderful indie bands. One of the standouts, and definitely one of the most-curious to emerge, is the three-piece, experimental-rock act Lavola. Early last year, Lavola released the four-song EP Black Sea of Trees and introduced itself to South Florida audiences with shows at Churchill’s Pub and Respectable Street. says, earned Lavola new fans and credibility with promoters that led to opening slots for Dead Confederate at Respectable Street and for TR3 at Roxy’s.In June, the band bested some of the area’s top bands in an AEG showcase at Propaganda that scored it an opening gig for Silversun Pickups. The attention from the contest and concert, frontman drive to a headbanging intensity. Throughout all this weaves the band’s most striking instrument: Cires’ voice. and 19-year-old drummer — feature long, rhythmic guitar jams that 24-year-old bassist It’s not surprising that Lavola’s arresting performances caught the eyes and ears of talent-seekers. Hard-driving, upbeat songs such as “The Queen Is Dead” — which will be officially released on the group’s forthcoming EP, The audacious singer uses screams, groans and whispers to accentuate the images contained in his narrative lyrics. Cires, who graduated with a creative-writing degree from Florida State University in 2009, casts images of floating women, bursting blood bubbles, waltzing nurses and bleeding mascara to create a theme of escaping and killing romantic sentiments that extends between both EPs.