Eluding tidy categorization, Seattle's Midday Veil draws from an ever-deepening well of influences including krautrock, psych, folk, drone, blues, noise, new age, metal, and various kinds of non-western and traditional music.

The band began in 2008 as the duo of David Golightly (synths) and Emily Pothast (vocals + rhythm guitar). The current lineup also includes Timm Mason on lead baritone guitar, Jayson Kochan on bass guitar and clarinet, and Chris Pollina on drums and the occasional banjo.

David and Emily are members of the Portable Shrines Collective, which produces Escalator Fest, an annual multimedia psych/garage/experimental rock happening in Seattle. They are also the co-founders of Translinguistic Other Recordings and give site-specific installation/performances as Hair and Space Museum. Timm performs (and obsessively records) solo material as Mood Organ; Jayson flies solo as Airport.

Midday Veil's debut studio album Eyes All Around (LP/CD) is currently available for purchase through Translinguistic Other Recordings.

"Eyes All Around is an album of perfect balance - a meditation on life and death, light and dark, ambient, near-subliminal blankets of sound and loud, jaw-clenching power. It is an album in the truest sense: oversized, vividly illustrated and providing an anthology of distinct, yet distinctly intertwined, songs, sounds and emotions."
-Ryan Muldoon, Revolt of the Apes

"Eyes All Around is one of those 'take you on a journey' recordings; it's a sensational round trip that's both exceptionally harrowing and blissful, mystical and earthy, cerebral and sensual. Mind expansion rarely is this sexy."
-Dave Segal, The Stranger

"Midday Veil skirt the lines of conventional psych rock, frolicking through folky meadows one song, and postmortem mantras and ritualistic rock the next, summoning the spirit of Portishead, right down to the sonic complexities and harrowing vocals, or late, great 90s post-rockers Hovercraft, or the vigor of Velvet Underground's 'Sister Ray.'"
-Travis Ritter, The Portland Mercury

"Is this a mere psychedelic rock record? ...Or is it a work of spiritual technology ...a channeling ritual that forces the listener to confront timeless themes of death and rebirth unconsciously?"
-John Gillanders, Review of Eyes All Around, Redefine Magazine

"...feels a bit like watching the birth of humanity from space."
-Joey Veltkamp, Best Of