It's early, but Tombs' excellent Winter Hours is one of those albums I know will be with me when the calendar's about to shift and it's time for end-of-the-year lists. The Brooklyn trio's Relapse debut blends New York hardcore intensity with blackened atmospherics and extended shoegaze textures. They're a blistering live band piloted by Black Box Recordings' Mike Hill -- ex-Anodyne, Versoma -- who's as apt to pull from Leviathan, Wold, and Deathspell Omega as he is Joy Division, Man Is The Ba...
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It's early, but Tombs' excellent Winter Hours is one of those albums I know will be with me when the calendar's about to shift and it's time for end-of-the-year lists.... more info