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
June 17—Sidewinder Tavern—Denver, Colorado
June 18—Diabolical Records—Salt Lake City, Utah
June 19—Bouquet—Boise, Idaho
June 20—Boreal—Eugene, Oregon
June 21—Slabtown—Portland, Oregon (early show)
June 21—Optimist House—Portland, Oregon (evening show)
June 23—Elbo Room—San Francisco, California
June 24—Bridgetown DIY—La Puente, California
June 25—51 West—Tempe, Arizona
June 26—Hub—Belen, New Mexico
June 27—Taqueria Pediritos—Dallas, Texas
June 28—Sect One—Austin, Texas
June 29—TBA—New Orleans, Louisiana
June 30—Spring Street Firehouse—Birmingham, Alabama
July 1—Skanktuary—Asheville, North Carolina
July 2—Metro Gallery—Baltimore, Maryland
July 3—Guide To Kulchur—Cleveland, Ohio
July 4—TBA—Buffalo, New York
July 5—Seminary—Binghamton, New York
July 6—O’Brien’s—Boston, Massachusetts
July 7—Grand Victory—Brooklyn, New York