Labels: Tycho Magnetic Anomalies
Review by: Andy Malcolm
Ok, this is pretty much the music I have been looking for. The new Shores LP on No Idea is a pretty solid piece of slow indie rock, but it didn’t quite have the vibe I was after. Planning for Burial do. And not by half. This is repetitious, bleak and gloomy indie rock. It clearly owes a debt to Codeine, and I also get hints of that awesome Kepler LP “Fuck Fight Fail”. On their blog they have an entry that says “get fucking sad, because life will bring you down.” – we need more bands with that kind of attitude. Planning for Burial sloth it out over 3 tracks, each one as melancholy and miserable as the last. The vocals are buried underneath the waves of tired guitar, with nary an opportunity for you to decipher a word let alone a lyric. Sometimes they swathe things in an understated blanket of electronic ambience. They have song titles like “Warm But Empty”. One song is 8 minutes 20 seconds long. It barely changes course for the duration. My kind of band. I hesitate to call this post rock, given that post rock is the genre most devoid of human spirit that I can think of.
I ordered the tape of this, I really hope I get it soon, so I can listen to it, driving home in the dark after the shittiest day at work. That would be awesome.