Music Review: Desert Museum’s album “The Hermit”
As a modern human being, at some point in life we reminisce on our past. More often than not, the subject of thought is usually past/ former relationships, good or bad. For some, it’s a torturous cycle of memories that leaves a putrid stain on their hearts and souls. When I first listened to the DFW indie band Desert Museum, the tunes catapulted my thought press into a cesspool of lost memories, all were not the best times.
Desert Museum consists of 4 members: Lamberth Carsey, Joel Perez, Scott Willems, and Zeke Pritchard. Lamberth states that they all grew up together so I assume that their relationship was unbreakable. The origins of the band name derived from a hat that Carsey found in a thrift store 5 years ago. Some of their early influences include Title Fight and Teen Suicide.
Their album “The Hermit” is 10 songs and roughly 41 mins. As the album starts, you’re greeted with a sample from 1983 French documentary Sans Soliel. From there on, Desert Museum showcasing their version of a post-punk/shoegaze band. The ambient overtone is accentuated by the melancholy spirit in the lyricism and vocals that lay just below the instruments. The band’s tunes possess strong lo-fi tendencies through out the entire album. I favor two songs above all, “ See You/ Crawl” and “ Movie Theater”, they serve as songs with more of an upbeat tempo as oppose to the rest of the album.
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Band photo shot by @shotbyblank
