Homesick for Space - Discography (2001-2010)

So I'm back (at least for a little while), and rather than start off on a baller-ass note, I thought I'd take this opportunity to post something a bit (i.e., much) more melancholic and definitely meant for cooler months: Homesick for Space. Don't ignore their name, as even upon that stepping stone to the band's career, they touched on the single, inbetween emotion that would permeate their entire catalog: a longing (homesickness) for some space that can't quite be grasped. This stuff is horribly, awfully and terribly congruous to how I feel on my least-sober days following a not-quite-mutual breakup, and I've got an inkling that that might be a close heir to the headspace these guys were in as they wrote and recorded these three albums.

Note: Not for birthdays, congratulatory celebrations, or getting into that really cute and bubbly girl's pants.

2001 - Homesick for Space @V0

2003 - Unison @V0

2010 - All We Are Now (or, 2007's ...Please Continue renamed and physically issued) @V0

Dark Suns - Existence (2005)

Thought I'd make a probably-shortlived return with this beast of an album—actually, I should probably say gracefully-slow-but-fucking-immense-as-fuck whale of an album, because that's exactly what it is: a majestic slab of emotionally moving progressive metal. Yeah, that sentence does sound flamboyantly gay, but it's spot-fucking-on, trust me.

For fans of Disillusion or anyone who thinks Dream Theater is the worst band of the last eight years. Some dark and powerful stuff here.

@V2: Part 1 & Part 2

The Pax Cecilia - Blessed are the Bonds (2007)

Like the last post, this album belongs on a plateau of good things to come from post-rock in the last few years. Most of the more underground Urban Outfitter-inclined music fans have heard it, and it's probably even somehow overrated by those same rabid groups, but fuck me if this really isn't essential in some way or another. I'm definitely exaggerating, but take that last sentence with only half a grain of salt. Blessed are the Bonds is a fantastic album, chock full of strained passages and the kind of desperation only a dying non-theist knows.

One difference to note between this album and the last, however, is that they're almost complete opposites of one another. These Monsters... was relatively subdued, particularly in the climaxes, while this one thrives on them and emerges from "The Hymn" with the "Most Intense Post-Rock Album" award. For anyone who loves post-rock with tons of experimental and ambient flourishes, and maybe a dash of that screaming stuff.

@320: Part 1 & Part 2

Bohren & der Club of Gore - Sunset Mission (2000)

Extremely down-tempo ambient noir-jazz from Germany.

This one reeks of cigarette smoke. It's been discarded by some junkie in an ashtray at the only lit corner of a bar, long after everyone else has left. Outside the bar, streetlamps rest as mouth-like alleys keep watch. Car horns and taxi-calls can be heard from a distance without a soul in sight. Apartment lights on faraway buildings are the only things left to perpetuate the night after every star has blotted itself out. Reserved for lonely AMs and moody, lights-out sex.

(Removed. Sorry guys.)