Dead C - Secret Earth CD

The elegance of howling guitar noise was only fully realized when The Dead Cappeared. For over twenty years now, the trio has continually redefined what rockmusic is and can sound like, and have inspired Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, Wolf Eyes,and Comets On Fire, not to mention the current fertile underground noise scene. The Dead C is the ultimate blues band. But rather than departing from the heartfeltsinging of the African-American South, they express the tenants of white alienationin society with unrelenting force– a focused soundtrack to accompany KnutHamsun novels, Samuel Beckett plays and Ingmar Bergman films. Michael Morley’smonotonic vocal moan anchors the inherent isolation of our modern world – nothingis more earnest, nothing sounds so lost. In its career, The Dead C has oscillated between two poles. Recent albums chose toexplore drones, electronic loops and musique concrete. However, their new album,Secret Earth, proselytizes oceanic feedback, catastrophic drumming and a return