Old Man Gloom
No
Hydra Head (2012)
“THEY PLAYED ‘ZOZOBRA’! THEY PLAYED ‘ZOZOBRA’!” Thank you for allowing me to get that out of my system as the shock of seeing Old Man Gloom resume the gloom only just recently is still fresh and firmly entrenched in my mind, and seeing as my wait to see the Old Man Gloom Institute for Simian Research has been much more than a decade in the making, reveling in the moment is something that I am still savoring with each memory (and the show was chock full of great moments such as their playing “Rape Athena” and the aforementioned “Zozobra”); while the band played, the new songs trickled out between well-known favorites (the new album, NO, was announced a mere days before the tour with few people having heard it, the songs were new to most people in attendance), and with every new blast, my friend and I kept looking at each other because of how good the songs sounded. Listening to Old Man Gloom can be an exercise in aural endurance as they often times alternate between heavy and pummeling tracks and noise-y interludes (which some comment as being off putting), but with NO, the band further integrate the two … Read more
Various Artists
As We Draw/Euglena/Hexis
Throatruiner (2011)
Split albums generally feature artists at their best, and when they feature artists from a strong label like Throatruiner, there's … Read more
