Velvet’s Romance Returns: 2-Year Anniversary Repress on Natural with Pink Splatter (Limited to 100)

Two years after its release, Romance still feels suspended in its own soft-focus glow. To mark the anniversary, we’re issuing a second pressing of Velvet’s breakout LP—limited to 100 copies on natural vinyl with pink splatter. The first pressing vanished almost immediately, a quiet testament to the record’s staying power. This new edition won’t linger either.

From the start, Romance set itself apart by refusing shoegaze’s easy retreat into murk. Velvet took the genre’s familiar palette—cascading delay, shimmering fuzz, vaporous vocals—and turned it toward light. The guitars swell in warm, glowing waves; percussion pulses with a distinctly human heartbeat. Even at its most enveloping, the record feels open, generous, expansive.

There’s an emotional clarity running through these songs that keeps them from dissolving into abstraction. Heartbreak is present, but it’s reframed as movement rather than stasis. Choruses bloom instead of collapse. Vocals hover like a mirage over dense arrangements, adding a fragile beauty that gives each track both intimacy and scale.

More than a shoegaze record, Romance is a document of reflection and renewal—a reminder that melancholy can coexist with hope. This anniversary pressing offers a new physical form for a record that continues to resonate. Limited to 100 copies. When they’re gone, they’re gone.