Review: Devillock – These Graves

 

Musique concrete? Perhaps, but the program hardly reveals an underbelly of intentions. Ominous static, electronic moans and distant whirring flirt with guitar feedback on two 14-minute found-soundscapes while the record’s two remaining tracks present spare, almost elegiac organ pulsing and half-interrupted silences. Like Jim O’Rourke’s epic “Cede,” but without the vision or initiation. – Punk Planet, May/June 2006

About the author

Justin Vellucci is a staff writer for PopMatters, Spectrum Culture, and MusicTAP, a contributor to Pittsburgh Current, and a former staffer for Popdose, Punk Planet and Delusions of Adequacy. His music writing has appeared in national magazines such as American Songwriter, alt-pubs like The Brooklyn Rail, Pittsburgh CityPaper and San Diego CityBeat, blogs Swordfish, Punksburgh and Linoleum, and the Gannett magazine Jetty. He lives in Pittsburgh.