Black Heart Prog Session?

This entry was posted by andy fargnoli on Thursday, February 12th, 2009 at 2:53 pm.

Hey, San Diegans, let’s level with one another. We all know that, on February 17th, indie prog-rockers …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead are coming out with a new album, titled The Century of Self.

Some people (mostly their publicists) are saying it will send the band into the stratosphere, a place Trail of Dead is not unfamiliar with, thanks to 2002’s Source Tags & Codes. Others (perhaps privacists) think that it’ll keep them terrestrial and do little more than confirm that the band has indeed made a new record.

While those two sides wrangle, you can feast your greedy little ears on tracks 10 and 13, respectively, ”Insatiable One” and “Insatiable Two”—as well as the rest of the album—right here.

Comprising equal parts goodness and brevity, the songs evoke the musical stylings of black-hearted San Diego son Pall Jenkins and, moreover, are evidence that Trail of Dead’s new release will not be a complete waste of time, wherever it may put them.