Thom Wasluck—who records under the name Planning For Burial—was onto something with his gloom-steeped, 2010 debut, Leaving. Four years later, Planning For Burial’s second full-length, Desideratum, has arrived, and it dramatically focuses Wasluck’s lush, shivering vision of isolation and the ghostliness of memory. One of Desideratum’s most haunting tracks, “29 August 2012,” hints at whole dimensions of regret, all concealed behind a shoegaze shroud that splits the difference between Joy Division’s frigid echoes and Deafheaven’s fog of melody while retaining the raw-boned, home-recorded aesthetic established on Leaving. And on the video for “29 August 2012”—which is being debuted here—a distorted flicker of images provides the perfectly blurred backdrop to Wasluck’s spectral meditation.
Desideratum is available now via The Flenser.
Planning For Burial tour 2014
June 12—Europa—Brooklyn, New York
June 13—The House With No Name—Columbus, Ohio
June 14—Record Breakers—Chicago, Illinois
June 15—Hexagon Bar—Minneapolis, Minnesota
June 16—Sisters Of Sound Records—Manhattan, Kansas