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!
