PLANNING FOR BURIAL Desideratum LP black/shoegaze have a nice life lonesummer

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PLANNING FOR BURIAL Desideratum LP

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(The Flenser)
*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***

DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
    Available on both CD (in a tip-on mini-LP style jacket with printed inner sleeve) and LP.
    Though San Francisco area label The Flenser first made their bones on the experimental, boundary-shifting black metal of bands like Palace Of Worms, Bosse-De-Nage and Panopticon, the label's most recent output has headed into less charted regions, releasing music from bands way out on the edge of contempo post-punk and industrial music. And yet these more recent offerings still retain a grim, desolate tone that'll no doubt resonate with a lot of fans of the more adventurous fringes of black metal, making the likes of Planning For Burial much more interesting to me than much of the other neo-goth/post-punk outfits that have sprung up lately. The second full-length from New Jersey resident Thom Wasluck and his one-man band Planning For Burial immediately impressed me with its unique mixture of doom-laden heaviness, noise-damaged gothiness, and cold industrial pummel, a sound that almost feels like it could have been released on Justin Broadrick's old HeadDirt label, but at the same time is soaked in so much muted heartache that it sounds totally now.
    As the opener "Where You Rest Your Head At Night" begins it's steady, mournful churn, the sound that pours out is akin to some of the more burly, distortion-laden shoegazer bands of old, whiffs of stuff like Isn't Anything-era My Bloody Valentine and Swervedriver emanating off of this blown-out heaviness, even the more recent noise-blasted distorto-bliss of Geisha seems like a possible analogue. Wasluck's vocals are buried way down in the mix, a pensive, sorta gothy croon obscured by his immense layers of crushing distorted guitar, while delicate piano, warm etheric synths and woodwind-like sounds all swarm together into these glimmering dream-pop melodies, forming dense clouds of stirring, super infectious gloomgaze crush. The melody on that first song circles endlessly, caught in a blissed-out, blazing distorted loop, mesmeric and melancholy, and each of the other songs shares a similar minimalist structure, the songs typically carved out of a single massive hook that they slowly bury beneath waves of corrosive distortion and layered electronics. The whole of Desideratum is this bleary, synth-drenched majesty, the title track later slipping into a shorter stretch of hazy slow-motion beauty, other songs moving back into even heavier dirge-like territory, huge riffs grinding over sparse, slow drumming, again reminding me big-time of those classic heavy guitar bands transformed into something far more doom-laden, more wasted, more ruined. The closing track "Golden" makes up half of the album, starting off with slow languid strummed chords shimmering with reverb, a sun baked sorrowful slowcore drift slowly unfolding across the the first half, but then gradually builds into another monumental wall of dreamy heaviness, vast and windswept and mournful. Another amazing new discovery via The Flenser, whose track record over the past year has been absolutely stunning. Highly recommended.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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