Photo by Beth Eisgrau-Heller
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Vaadat Charigim was formed in 2012 in Tel Aviv by Yuval Haring, Yuval Guttman and Dan Fabian Bloch.
ALLMUSIC GUIDE has described their sound as “a holy hybrid of Ride’s wistful dreaminess and Slowdive’s protracted druggy slow-motion guitar haze” (Fred Thomas).
Despite the fact that all their songs are in Hebrew, and the obvious language barrier, their debut has received wide press coverage in the US, winning the band a rapidly growing following.
From it’s early beginnings, the band was praised by local Israeli press as the new revivalists of Israeli rock, with singles played on rotation on all mainstream radio stations in Israel, front page interviews in major newspapers and a mainstream following. A truly rare phenomenon in local Israeli terms, for a young underground band singing in Hebrew.