French for “Speed”
Vitesse. French for “speed”. Who remembers Vitesse? The Chicago duo comprised of Joshua Klein and Hewson Chen? After taking a music composition course together at the University of Chicago, Klein and Chen released four wondrous indie synth-pop albums and then seemingly disappeared. The collaboration between the two became difficult; Klein (an editor for satirical magazine, The Onion) would visit Chen (a law student at Vanderbilt University) over weekends to collaborate and record music together. The process, despite its successes, couldn’t sustain itself as the two found their musical aspirations and relative geography diverging. It has been several years since Vitesse’s …