The Noise Is…

Genre: Indie Pop, Ambient
Year: 2008
Location: Olympia, WA
Label: K Records
MySpace

1. USA Highway
2. Come Over In Your Car
3. And All the Boys Looked
4. Paris To New York
5. Leaving Song
6. Road Song
7. Forget Everything
8. Jupiter
9. Turquoise and Gold
10. Horizon Star

White Light Strobing in the first full-length release by dreamsters Desolation Wilderness. The album overall contains a very similar sound that led to their following full-length, New Universe, but with less haze within the music. Still really dig it. (And I ordered the New Universe LP, which should be getting here tomorrow!)

Genre: Indie Pop, Ambient
Year: 2009
Location: Olympia, WA
Label: K Records
MySpace

Track list:
01. Venice Beach
02. Boardwalk Theme
03. Moon Dreams
04. Strange Cool Girl
05. Slow Fade
06. Restless Heart
07. Satellite Song
08. San Francisco 2AM
09. You Hold a Power Over Me
10. No Tomorrow (Version)

Funny story about this band, and the next couple bands I’ll be posting. So I went to my local record store, Music Saves, for the last time before going to school. I was planning to pick up some records and posters to decorate my apartment. Since the posters were only 50 cents, I ended up getting about 13 posters, made up mostly of bands I’d never heard of. And one of the bands that had the coolest poster was Desolation Wilderness. Just from the album artwork, this band really intrigued me, and the music proved no different. The driving force for this record is its dreaminess. The first track, “Venice Beach”, carries an up-tempo beat with cloudy vocals within the mix of faint guitars and clear drums. Fans of The Pains of Being Pure At Heart will love this album, but for everyone else, this is a perfect end of summer album.