VMP Magazine

VMP Rising is our series where we partner with up-and-coming artists to press their music to vinyl and highlight artists we think are going to be the Next Big Thing. Today, we’re featuring These Days, the new EP from St. Panther.

Image by Caity Krone

On a particularly hot morning, I find myself trying to find out how to get back to the original point of my conversation with London-based rock outfit Gaygirl. Instead, guitarist Lewis Clark uncovers a strange memory from his teenage years playing in bands with his schoolmates. “One day in school, we had a climbing wall built for us and we played at the opening for this climbing wall.” The laughs died down, and as we approached the next question, Clark interjects, “No one used that climbing wall. It smelled like fish.”