Until They Burn Me sound like a band that started with stories before songs. Based out of Ferndale, they pull from alt rock, classic rock, and Americana, but everything circles back to voice and mood: deep, close-mic’d vocals, roomy drums, and desert road feeling guitars.
A Carnival of Reveries plays like one long late-night drive. “Dark & Deep” sets the tone with a dusty guitar line and a low, filtered vocal that sounds half-spoken, half-sung, riding a loose, jumpy groove. “To The Bone” widens the frame a little, adding bell tones that push it toward something more cinematic, the kind of track you could hear over opening credits with headlights cutting through dark backroads.
“Licorice & Lollipops” loosens things up, folding in a slightly funkier swing and more space in the vocal, almost like an aside between heavier scenes. “Dig Them Graves” drags the record back into the dirt, all western shadow and deep-voiced muttering, while “Night Passage of Painted Dog” feels written for sync outright, built like an episode opener: steady pulse, scene-setting guitars, and a sense that something is about to happen off-screen.
“Revealed to Him in the Wild” pushes the album into its most open and panoramic stretch, adding heavier guitars and drums under that same baritone and letting the arrangement carry a little more weight without breaking the mood. “White Devil” and “The Golden Motel Room” keep the record moving, tightening the focus around groove and tone before the record slips into “Josef K,” a fatalistic closer that lands like end credits. The record knows exactly what world it wants to live in and stays there with conviction.
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