Ghastly City Sleep ‎– Lulling Skulls 2 x lpGhastly City Sleep Lulling Skulls 2 x lp "FOR FANS OF Crippled Black Phoenix, Radiohead SOUNDS LIKE Coming to terms with darkness, while slowly emerging from it. WHY YOULL LOVE IT Beyond a cult following partially amassed from post hardcore roots within City of Caterpillar, Ghastly City Sleep remains under appreciated and overlooked. On their self titled 2006 debut, the band set the template with a breathtaking dreamy post rock soundscape. Then they

'Enough Is Never' is furnished with thudding electronic stabs

but many songs still rely on hypnotic flooding too

Fans of the Black Parade and Joy Division will find their new domestic favorite in Psychomachia

Several of the pieces are droneworks

electrified by spurts of synth-pop chime stepping up a gear with the addition of quickened hi-hats

Piti (Standstill /Catarata) and Joel (Dies Irae)

Awareness is ten tracks' worth of swaggering

both bonus songs have never seen the light of day:  “Peaceful Life” was recorded in 2000 by longtime Chicago engineer Pat Keneally (RIP) and “Trivialized’ is from a studio session for XRAY Radio in 2016

the raw side of Tragedy

dueling guitarists Adam Newman and Brion Kennedy rarely shy from an opportunity to engage in an Iron Maiden style harmony or a squealing pinch harmonic

Second Letter "Cicatrix" lp

Komplikations ‎– Humans 12"