Blood Meridian — We Almost Made It Home

Singing, "Just livin’ every day like it matters anyway" from the track "Oh Oh Oh," Matthew Camirand sums up this entire gloom-pop exercise. While We Almost Made It Home contains some pretty arrangements, the debut release from Vancouver indie collective Blood Meridian rarely crawls out from under Camirand’s morose monotone and facile lyrics about choosing between depression or emotional detachment. Aside from the Dandy Warhols-esque "Sailor’s Warning" and the handclap-powered "Oh Oh Oh," We Almost Made It Home is sonic quicksand. Countless albums have been inspired by the world being a shitty place, but an album like this only adds to the misery.

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