The Great Dismal

by Nothing

The Great Dismal cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 30 October 2020
  • Label: Relapse
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 46:10
  • Community rating: 3.46/5 from 8 ratings

Artists on this release: Will Yip, Domenic Palermo, Kyle Kimball, Doyle Martin, Aaron Heard, Shelley Weiss, Mary Lattimore

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded during the height of early pandemic lockdowns, the Philadelphia quintet refines their notoriously heavy brand of alternative shoegaze. Thematically, frontman Domenic Palermo explores pervasive existential dread, isolation, and societal decay, perfectly mirrored by the suffocating walls of fuzzed-out guitars. Despite the overwhelmingly bleak subject matter, the record features incredibly sharp, melodic dream-pop sensibilities.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, melodic, noisy, fuzz-drenched, loud

Tracklist

  1. A Fabricated Life (5:46)
  2. Say Less (4:15)
  3. April Ha Ha (4:20)
  4. Catch a Fade (3:50)
  5. Famine Asylum (4:10)
  6. Bernie Sanders (4:07)
  7. In Blueberry Memories (5:18)
  8. Blue Mecca (5:17)
  9. Just a Story (4:16)
  10. Ask the Rust (4:48)

Credits

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