The songs on this EP I originally wrote when I was about 17. that's almost a decade ago. Why are we releasing them again? Because I had put that album out with no band. I chose the artist name "Belle & The Vertigo Waves" in hopes that I would one day find a band. Pretty much the biggest homeschooled, loner kid move. The album at the time was angsty, soft indie rock. Over the years, I got my band together. My dad (John), my boyfriend at the time (Jeremiah - husband now), one of his besties (Zach) and you know... just some drummer. jk we love Elliott.

Our sound slowly evolved and got heavier. Everyone had found their own place in the music we were making putting pieces of our wildly different musical influences into one collaborative project like a weird ass potluck. From 90s grunge, 80s rock to modern pop… we made something that made us feel like a BAND. 

So here we are, rock-ifying a bunch of sad girl songs, turning them into something that will make you speed down neighborhood roads to. oops.. sorry. These songs range from being about teenage breakups to experiencing death and grief for the first time. A decade later, I added some lyrical and melodic changes to give some new perspective to those stories along with the insane change my band made in composition and feel to the instrumentation.

Belle & the Vertigo Waves

Belle & The Vertigo Waves is a Hard-Rock band combining classic, riff-based guitar and melodies with all the angst of modern, pop-driven vocals.  It’s like if Pat Benatar and Taylor Swift went on a double date with Ozzy Osborne and James Hetfield. 

However, it wasn't always that way.. 

Too eager to take the time to assemble a band, Belle hit the studio to record her first record, 'Aligned' in 2017 and hired some local musicians to play with her. She slapped a "band" name on the record in hopes that one day she'd have one.

Her father, John Loux and her now husband, Jeremiah Scott played on that first record and are still in the band today.

After many shows, festivals, studio sessions and late night rehearsals, they finally found the remaining members of the band, Zach Nielsen (guitar) and Elliott Holt (drums). 

Throughout the process of trial and error on the way to find the right band members, the sound of Belle & The Vertigo Waves evolved a long way from the once soft, indie, alternative sound that you heard on Aligned. In one way or another, each member of the band put their own musical inspirations into the band to create a much more heavy, aggressive and honestly.... fun sound.

The pool of inspiration being drawn from ranges away from Taylor Swift to Ozzy Osborn. That is what makes Belle & The Vertigo Waves such an exciting band to not only listen to, but to watch perform. 

Their latest record, Lorelai showcases this new sound along with aggressive, introspective and heartbreaking lyrics. To put it plainly, they write music you can dance to, cry to, or both