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Cemeteries


Cemeteries is Kyle J. Reigle who is based in Portland, Oregon. Not to be confused with the discontinued hardcore band of the same name. https://speakinghorrors.bandcamp.com/ Kyle J. Reigle describes the elegiac, blood-freezing folk of his Cemeteries project as “goth pop,” a genre tag that feels a bit too cheerful once you’ve heard it. His songs have a hint of gloom, but nothing as scary as the goth name suggests. Two major 2012 trends sneak into play, witch house and chillwave, but mostly the album encapsulates the drowsy echoes of dream pop. Reverberated atmospherics might bring to mind Mazzy Star, and the nocturnal qualities fall right in line with contemporaries like Beach House and Bradford Cox's drearier, spacy output in Deerhunter or Atlas Sound. His forthcoming full-length, The Wilderness via Lefse, was recorded at home but sounds like it came from the crypt, as evidenced by the spare and spectral, intermittently sylvan tones of “Summer Smoke,” a song that’s been given the beautiful, Nolan Wilson Goff-directed video. Chilled out, enchanting, and spooky, Cemeteries’ first official album offers a welcome haunting. The solo project of Kyle Reigle, Cemeteries creates a soundscape in which mellow percussion gets layered with synth and guitar, where ethereal vocals lend dream pop a drafty feel. Reigle composed The Wilderness from an apartment bordering the woods and industrial wastelands at the edge of Buffalo, New York – a setting that seems to match th...

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