Ghastly City Sleep - S/T

Someone wise once said that all good things must end. For some this is a bleak thought...all the things they love will die, all the things that make them happy will fade away. For some it's entirely opposite and the end of one thing means opportunity. Punk rock is great in that sense. For every band you love that fades away or breaks up, comes the birth of many great new bands.

Ghastly City Sleep (GCS) was born out of the demise of City of Caterpillar...but unlike CoC they did not come into this world thrashing and screaming. GCS carefully and methodically construct dreamy soundscapes that slowly build up into beautiful collisions of shoegaze and post rock....but under all of it lies this incredibly sad and dark undertone. Digesting this record is admittedly a lot of work....that's not to say I don't like it, I love this album, but like their predecessors in City of Caterpillar, GCS is creating complex and emotional music that needs to be listened to with a lot of care.
~AB

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