Wednesday - Twin Plagues (Black Vinyl)

Wednesday - Twin Plagues (Black Vinyl)In a long and emotionally exhausting year of being inside (alone, in my case,) I have found myself thinking about mirrors. How to avoid spending too much time in them, most days. Taking inventory of the real, physical self is difficult work, work that I'm not entirely opposed to but work that became immediately more treacherous for me when I had to witness the very real toll that time, modern anxieties, isolation, and boredom were taking on me. It was

In that time

specifically the dearly departed cat Breakfast

who released their second studio-album Wall Of Eyes in January which follows the band’s 2022-debut album A Light For Attracting Attention

The majority of the album's material was first conceived during an idyllic 10-day retreat in Northern Vermont

where words like "explosive" and "thunderous" barely do justice

concerns itself with how we feel

trading in the crystalline production of the earth is not a cold dead place for a paint-peeling intensity that blurs the lines between studio and live performance

” it’s clear that Molchat Doma are operating on another level

and free-form textural sculpture might seem to be signifiers that land far from each other on a vast 3D plane

Austyn Wohlers) debut album

Jagjaguwar and his own DEEK Recordings

there have been no secretive meetings to work out the master plan