{{Short description|American dream pop band}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{About|the American dream pop band|the mongoose species|Marsh mongoose}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Vansire | image = | caption = | origin = Rochester, Minnesota, U.S. | genre = {{Flatlist| * Dream pop<ref name="JonesOberlin2018" /> * bedroom pop * lo-fi }} | years_active = {{start date|2015}}–present | label = Spirit Goth | website = {{url|https://www.vansiretheband.com/}} | current_members = * Joshua Maclaughlin Augustin * Samuel Richard Winemiller<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ascap.com/repertory#/ace/search/workID/908702374 |title=CENTRAL TIME (FEAT. MICK JENKINS) |website=ASCAP |publisher=American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers |access-date=November 9, 2023}}</ref> }} '''Vansire''' is an American dream pop band from Rochester, Minnesota, consisting of Josh Augustin and Sam Winemiller. They are currently signed to Spirit Goth Records. Vansire has performed at ROCKChester and First Avenue, played a live session with Audiotree, and collaborated with artists such as Chester Watson, Jeremiah Jae, and Mick Jenkins.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.postbulletin.com/opinion/our-view-rockchester-music-festival-showcases-city-s-young-talent/article_af844788-9860-575f-a546-fce3744cd0b3.html|title=Our View: ROCKchester music festival showcases city's young talent|date=14 May 2016|work=Post Bulletin|access-date=30 March 2020}}</ref><ref name="VansireAudioTree">{{Cite web|url=https://midwestaxn.com/music/watch-this-vansire-on-audiotree-live/|title=Watch This: Vansire on Audiotree Live|last=Welch|first=Alyssa|date=29 August 2019|website=Midwest Action|access-date=30 March 2020}}</ref>
==Formation== Vansire formed as band members Josh Augustin (vocals, synths, guitar, and drums) and Sam Winemiller (bass, guitar, and synths) were attending Century High School in Rochester, Minnesota.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.postbulletin.com/magazines/507/rockchester-festival-highlights-our-city-s-young-musicians/article_cc66f666-67f1-11e7-99ac-5f980a51efda.html|title=ROCKchester festival highlights our city's young musicians|last=Colby|first=Claire|date=13 July 2017|website=Post Bulletin|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170714023530/https://www.postbulletin.com/magazines/507/rockchester-festival-highlights-our-city-s-young-musicians/article_cc66f666-67f1-11e7-99ac-5f980a51efda.html|archive-date=14 July 2017|access-date=28 March 2020}}</ref> Augustin and Winemiller met while playing together on the school's drumline and continued to find themselves performing together through school activities (such as concert band and pit orchestra), something the duo says contributed to their creative synergy and friendship, which later helped in Vansire's formation.<ref name="JonesOberlin2018" />
In the summer of 2015, Winemiller approached Augustin after practice for the school's drumline with an idea to make a band "that sounds like [[Mac DeMarco|Mac [DeMarco]]]". The pair's early recordings were made by holding instruments to the internal microphone of an iPad running GarageBand.<ref name="JonesOberlin2018">{{Cite web|url=https://www.oberlin.edu/news/qa-vansire-cofounder-josh-augustin-20|title=Q&A with Vansire Cofounder Josh Augustin '20|last=Jones|first=Ben|date=7 December 2018|website=Oberlin College and Conservatory|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200224080520/https://www.oberlin.edu/news/qa-vansire-cofounder-josh-augustin-20|archive-date=24 February 2020|access-date=27 March 2020}}</ref> Augustin and Winemiller, initially unsure of what to call their new project, turned to an online random word generator which landed on "vansire",<ref name="JonesOberlin2018" /> an alternative name for the Marsh mongoose.<ref name="KingdonHappold2013">{{cite book|author1=Jonathan Kingdon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B_07noCPc4kC&pg=RA4-PA298|title=Mammals of Africa|author2=David Happold|author3=Thomas Butynski|date=23 May 2013|publisher=A&C Black|others=Michael Hoffmann, Meredith Happold, Jan Kalina|isbn=978-1-4081-8996-2|pages=298}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Histoire Naturelle des Mammifères : avec des figures originales, coloriées, dessinées d'aprèsdes animaux vivans. Tome 5|publisher=A. Belin|year=1826|editor1=E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire |editor2=F. G. Cuvier |location=Paris |page=LIV |chapter=Vansire |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/HistoirenaturelVGeof/page/n223 |author1=Cuvier, F. G.}}</ref>
From there, the two continued to record together in their basements, living rooms, and bedrooms under the new Vansire moniker.
== Albums == === ''Reflections and Reveries'' and ''The Rolling, Driftless North'' (2016 - 2017) === In August 2016, Vansire self-released their first album, ''Reflections and Reveries''. The duo recorded the album entirely in Winemiller's basement in a roughly one-year period from August 2015 to August 2016, and included Winemiller's brother, Issac, on bass for some songs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vansire.bandcamp.com/album/reflections-and-reveries|title=Reflections and Reveries - Vansire|website=Bandcamp|access-date=28 March 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.complex.com/pigeons-and-planes/2018/02/vansire-chester-watson-star-catcher|title=Vansire and Chester Watson Blend Dream Pop and Hip-Hop "Star Catcher"|last=Corrigan|first=Graham|date=2 February 2018|website=Complex|access-date=30 March 2020}}</ref>
During this time, Augustin began studying at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Oberlin College, while Winemiller started at the University of Minnesota.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.krtuindie.org/blog/2018/12/3/qampa-josh-augustin|title=Q&A: Josh Augustin of Vansire|last=Anthony|first=Dominic|date=3 December 2018|website=KRTU Indie|access-date=30 March 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://retriever.umbc.edu/2019/08/vansire-woos-crowd-with-dream-pop-performance-at-songbyrd/|title=Vansire woos crowd with dream-pop performance at Songbyrd|last=Dassarma|first=Anjali|date=27 August 2019|website=The Retriever|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200327211414/https://retriever.umbc.edu/2019/08/vansire-woos-crowd-with-dream-pop-performance-at-songbyrd/|archive-date=27 March 2020|access-date=7 April 2020}}</ref> Despite the distance, the duo vowed to remain committed to the Vansire project, now describing it as "a long-distance band relationship."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fordhamram.com/62323/culture/vansire-sets-the-bar-high-for-dream-pop-soundtrack-of-the-summer/|title=Vansire Sets High Bar for Dream Pop Soundtrack of the Summer|last=Nangle|first=Olivia|date=25 April 2018|website=The Fordham Ram|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200327211421/https://fordhamram.com/62323/culture/vansire-sets-the-bar-high-for-dream-pop-soundtrack-of-the-summer/|archive-date=27 March 2020|access-date=30 March 2020}}</ref>
===''Angel Youth'' and ''After Fillmore County'' (2018 - present)===
Vansire released their second album ''Angel Youth'' in April 2018 on Spirit Goth Records. Augustin and Winemiller produced and mastered the album themselves,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/78021/Vansire-Angel-Youth/|title=Review: Angel Youth - Vansire|last=K.|first=Rudy|date=27 September 2018|website=Sputnikmusic|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190710223723/https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/78021/Vansire-Angel-Youth/|archive-date=10 July 2019|access-date=28 March 2020}}</ref> and it is the band's first full length album that featured collaborations with other artists.
In June 2019, the duo released their single "Metamodernity",<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://atwoodmagazine.com/vsmm-vansire-metamodernity-song-review/|title=TODAY'S SONG: VANSIRE MUSE ABOUT MODERN LIFE WITH "METAMODERNITY"|last=Vettorino|first=Madison|date=19 August 2019|website=Atwood Magazine|access-date=7 April 2020}}</ref> also recording an Audiotree Live session at Audiotree's studios in Chicago later that August.<ref name="VansireAudioTree" />
In July 2020, Vansire released "Central Time", a single featuring Chicago-based rapper Mick Jenkins in their first collaboration together. In an interview announcing the single, Augustin said the single began as an instrumental demo that Winemiller sent him in September 2019, which sat untouched for roughly eight months until the duo returned back to it, finishing it up in the beginning of June 2020.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Vettorino|first=Madison|date=21 July 2020|title=PREMIERE: VANSIRE & MICK JENKINS' "CENTRAL TIME" IS A LOVE LETTER FOR THE MIDWEST|url=https://atwoodmagazine.com/vsct-vansire-central-time-song-premiere/|website=Atwood Magazine}}</ref>
During this period of the band's history, Augustin said that Vansire found itself leaning in an "increasingly dance-oriented direction" with regard to musical sound, and that the duo has started to draw influence from more "dancey, funk-imbued music".<ref name=":0" />
On October 16, 2020, Vansire released ''After Fillmore County'', a seven song EP which brought back FLOOR CRY, and featured Philadelphia-based rapper Ivy Sole.
In April 2021, Vansire released a remix of Sydney-based producer-artist Swaine Delgado's "F Me Up", their first remix.
In May 2022, Vansire released their third LP, ''The Modern Western World.''
== Discography == === Albums === {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:left;" ! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Album details |- | scope="row"| ''Reflections and Reveries'' | * Released: 18 August 2016 * Label: Self-released |- | scope="row"| ''Angel Youth'' | * Released: 26 April 2018 * Label: Spirit Goth |- | scope="row"| ''The Modern Western World'' | * Released: 12 May 2022 * Label: Self-released |}
=== Extended plays === {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:left;" ! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | EP details |- | scope="row"| ''The Rolling Driftless North'' | * Released: 27 January 2017 * Label: Self-released |- | scope="row"| ''After Fillmore County'' | * Released: 16 October 2020 * Label: Spirit Goth |- | scope="row"| ''The Rummer House Sessions'' | * Released: 15 December 2025 * Label: Self-released |}
=== Singles === {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:left;" ! Title ! Year ! Album/EP |- | scope="row"| "Bridges for the Young" | 2015 | rowspan="3"| ''Reflections and Reveries'' |- | scope="row"| "Postal Codes" | rowspan="2"| 2016 |- | scope="row"| "Pontchartrain" |- | scope="row"| "Driftless" | rowspan="3"| 2017 | ''The Rolling Driftless North'' |- | scope="row"| "Brown Study" | rowspan="4"| ''Angel Youth'' |- | scope="row" | "Halcyon Age" |- | scope="row" | "Nice to See You" | rowspan="3" | 2018 |- | scope="row" | "Star Catcher" |- | scope="row" | "That I Miss You" | {{n/a|Non-album single}} |- | scope="row" | "Metamodernity" | 2019 | {{n/a|Non-album single}} |- | scope="row" | "Central Time" | 2020 | ''After Fillmore County'' |- | scope="row" | "Just the Right Song" | 2021 | rowspan="5"| ''The Modern Western World'' |- | scope="row" | "The Modern Western World" | rowspan="4"| 2022 |- | scope="row" | "Kind of a Nice Time" |- | scope="row" | "Vivienne" |- | scope="row" | "Night Vision" |- |"Bushwick Cowboy" | rowspan="2" |2023 | rowspan="2" {{n/a|Non-album single}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bushwick Cowboy, by Vansire |url=https://vansire.bandcamp.com/album/bushwick-cowboy |access-date=2023-09-21 |website=Vansire}}</ref> |- |"Statelines" |- | scope="row" | "Years Roll By" | 2024 | {{n/a|Non-album single}} |- | scope="row" | "Love You All the Same" | rowspan="2" | 2024 | rowspan="2" {{n/a|Non-album single}} |- | scope="row" | "Reflection No. 8" |- | scope="row" | "From Your Own Eyes" | 2024 | {{n/a|Non-album single}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=From Your Own Eyes, by Vansire |url=https://vansire.bandcamp.com/track/from-your-own-eyes |access-date=2024-11-11 |website=Vansire}}</ref> |- | scope="row" | "Part of the Dream" | rowspan="3" | 2025 | rowspan="3" {{n/a|Non-album single}} |- |"Means So Much" |- |"Legerdemain" |}
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{Official website}}
Category:2015 establishments in Minnesota Category:American dream pop musical groups Category:American pop music duos Category:Bedroom pop musicians Category:Indie pop groups from Minnesota Category:Musical duos from Minnesota Category:Musical groups established in 2015