Planning for Burial - It's Closeness It's Easy - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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*ON LIMITED ICE-BLUE VINYL!!! Planning for Burial is the solo project of Thom Wasluck, emerging from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. It's Closeness, It's Easy is the long-awaited follow-up to 2017's Below The House. If Below The House was about returning home, following in the footsteps of one's father and joining a union, and leaving behind youth's wild days, It's Closeness, It's Easy embraces what comes next-the weight of all years, the quiet shifts, the reckoning with what remains. This record is many things. It captures the slow drift of time, the unnoticed shifts in a loved one-the creeping changes in mental health, the quiet pull of addiction, the kind of grief that settles in the bones rather than announces itself.At it's core, It's Closeness, It's Easy is about stepping into middle age and taking stock. It confronts the reality of living with the hand that's been dealt and searching for meaning in what remains. It speaks to loss-the crushing weight of saying goodbye to a beloved 17-year old cat, the slow-motion grief of watching friends self-destruct, the inescapable passage of time as it bears down on aging parents and the self. But it also reflects the warmth of reconnection, the kind of love that never burns out but instead deepens. The feeling of picking up where things left off, untouched by the years in between.While written over the course of two years, the recording process reflects a sense of immediacy. Rather than assembling songs piece by piece over time, the album took shape in singular, immersive sessions-less an act of construction, more an unveiling of something already waiting to take shape.Rooted in a staunch DIY ethos, Wasluck handles every aspect of Planning for Burial project himself-recording the music, designing the artwork, and performing live as a one-man band. He books his own tours, ever and independent creative. This hands-on approach ha

2017 . In late 2014, Planning for Burial's Thom Wasluck left the red house in New Jersey he'd called home for the last decade to return to his childhood bedroom in the mountains of Pennsylvania. Back in the house where he grew up, Wasluck found himself cut off from the familiarities of the previous decade as he put himself to work in the family trade. The monotony of routine quickly set in; work, home, and alcohol day after day became the norm. The childhood room that had given birth to his primordial four-track recordings was now a place of emptiness. These conditions set the stage for Planning for Burial's third full-length, Below the House. In terms of genre, Planning for Burial is often simply characterized as Inchgloom,Inch which can be seen as a blend of slowcore, shoegaze, doom, 90s alt rock and drone, and this album offers nine sullen and frequently heavy songs that brim with nostalgia and suburban ennui. It is a return to form of sorts to his beloved first album, 2010's Leaving - an introverted work characterized by it's heavy dynamics and personal obsessions. Since the beginning, Planning for Burial has been a solo endeavor. Wasluck has been recording music himself and touring extensively as a one-man band, playing hundreds of shows in DIY spaces and nightclubs, where he has shared the stage with acts like Deafheaven, King Woman and Chelsea Wolfe. Both incredibly loud and intimate, Planning for Burial plays with an unrivaled passion and funereal grace that is equally at home in basements and large venues.