Violens are a New York‑via‑Miami four‑piece formed in the fall of 2007 featuring members Iddo Arad (synths/vocals), Ben Brantley (bass), Jorge Elbrecht (lead vocals/guitar) and Kris King (drums). Their music imagines a place where The Zombies & The Byrds meet Wire & The Violent Femmes, and Crass meets Angelo Badalamenti & Prefab Sprout.

Violens songs conjure descriptions of nightmares, the passing of time, speculations on spiritual messages, and accounts of psychedelic hallucinations. Even their most frenetic guitar work and aggressive rhythms are draped in a gauze of reverberant, harmonized vocals and synths which create a sense of creepy, artificial comfort. A fitting characterization, lyrically and musically, for a group whose name is a melding of the words «violence» and «violins».
New York‑based, Florida‑bred Violens is fairly new to the music scene in its current incarnation, the quartet having come about as they are now in late summer 2007. There's not much to be found if you Google the psychedelic indie pop rock band, and currently, they don't even have 250 MySpace friends, but rest assured, it won't be this way for long.