Minor Patterns

One Hundred Seventy-Sixth

Artist - Disappears

Album - Pre Language

Released - 2012

Label - Kranky

Genre - Alternative Rock/Shoegaze/Indie Rock

Tracks:

Replicate

Pre Language

Hibernation Sickness

Minor Patterns

All Gone White

Joa

Fear of Darkness

Love Drug

Brother Joliene

The third album by Chicago-based band Disappears, Pre Language is a surprise.  I say surprise in a sense that I wasn't sure what to expect when I first listened to them.  Of course, this is yet another band I recently discovered through a recommendation and I'm so happy I took the time out to listen to it.  I love the bass on Fear of Darkness.  I imagine listening to this album and thinking a lot of Sonic Youth (obviously Steve Shelly is drumming on this album) and My Bloody Valentine.  A good comparison, I think, because you have the shoegazing feeling of My Bloody Valentine with an Alternative Rock feel.  Definitely amazing drumming on this album and the tracks are pretty stellar.  Another favorite of mine on this track is All Gone White.  "I see a light/It's coming straight for me/Could be the end/Or just the truth finally" -- a band after my own thought process, my heart, the reason why I do enjoy lyrics as well as the flow of sound against it.

Enjoy!