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(Indie88) Vancouver’s Vox Rea, formerly known as The Katherines, have shared “Dose Me Up,” their debut single under their new moniker.

The dark, dreamy new tune blends string arrangements, silky harmonies, and powerful vocal lines into a complex sonic landscape.

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“We wrote ‘Dose Me Up’ on our grandmother’s piano at home in late October,” frontwoman Kate Kurdyak explains. “The nostalgia of being in our childhood home had a big influence on the song – it’s a bit of a lament. The word nostalgia actually comes from the Greek word nostos, which roughly translates into homecoming, and algos, or pain. Taken together, nostalgia roughly translates to the return of pain. The elusiveness and flavour of that nostalgia created the melancholy mood you hear in the song – a sort of reckoning with the relentless nature of time.”

"Dose Me Up" is yet another great track in what Vox Rea considers to be "a soundtrack to the confusion and euphoria of coming of age in a postmodern world. Fascinated by the contradictions inherent in the human experience", Vox Rea have crafted "a celebration of free will and an ode to the paralyzing nature of choice. It is both the intoxicating night roaming and the guilty morning after, a revelry in excess and an exercise in solemn self-reflection. Hell bent on creating a meaningful life amidst the siren songs of consumerism and efficiency, Vox Rea wonders what it really means to be free."

Vox Rea features Kate Kurdyak (lead vocals/piano/guitar/bass), her sister Lauren Kurdyak (vocals/piano), childhood best friend Kaitlyn Hansen-Boucher (vocals/percussion) and Berklee-alum Mitchell Schaumberg (vocals/piano/guitar/bass). Kate and Lauren lean on their classical background, featuring violin and piano respectively. Kaitlyn is an accomplished vocalist and all three women grew up singing in choirs together. 

The three women formed The Katherines and released their debut album, To Bring You My Heart, on 604 Records. The album garnered over a million spins on Spotify with songs featured on playlists including New Music Friday, Pop All Day, Hot Hits Canada, Indie Pop Chillout and the Canada Viral 50 chart. Their songs can also be heard in TV shows like Orphan Black, Reboot and The Order.

The band has been featured in media outlets like Vice, MTV, Vancouver Sun and the National Post and has performed on morning shows in Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver. Accompanied by a top-notch backing band, the female trio has delivered enchanting performances at venues across Canada, captivating audiences at festivals like Rifflandia, NXNE, Juno Fest, Canada Day Vancouver, and Denim on the Diamond.  

Academics at heart, both sisters attended a small liberal arts school in the mountains during this time, where Kate studied philosophy and Lauren studied ecology. At school they met multi-instrumentalist and certified virtuoso Mitchell Schaumberg and started playing at school parties under the name BEEF with a group of friends. Like so many lighthearted music endeavours have gone, they realized the chemistry they had and began meeting up all over the world for late night liquor-fueled writing sessions that would eventually form the Vox Rea repertoire.