Planning For Burial is the product of a single wunderkind taking healthy obsessions with certain influences and filtering them through a droning, gloomy spyglass that evokes only the most concrete blues (the emotion not the music) this side of the gray waters of the Atlantic. While Planning For Burial gets lumped in with the whole wave of “bedroom recording artists” (which is where the project toiled for years until debut LP Leaving finally was released in 2010), the mastermind behind the project sets himself apart from his peers due in no small part to his background in sound.  Like labelmates Have A Nice Life, Planning For Burial’s brand of dark shoegaze/gloomgaze is hard to categorize, but it’s sound contains elements of slowcore, shoegaze, doom, drone, ’90s alt rock, ’80s goth, and black metal, while never being defined by any one of those genres.
Over the course of the last four years, Planning for Burial has been sporadically popping up in live venues (sharing the stage with a wide breadth of musical compatriots from Chelsea Wolfe to Deafheaven, while seeming out of place at none) along the east and west coasts and releasing a slew of EPs and splits on various labels.  Now, Planning for Burial is gearing up to release Desideratum on San Francisco’s Flenser Records on May 13 and the band will tour the US in support of it.  Check out all dates listed below.
Listen to Planning For Burial’s new full-length, Desideratum, in its entirety now on Brooklynvegan.com.
June 13th 2014 – The House With No Name, Columbus OH: W/ Nyodene D
June 14th 2014 – Club Rectum, Chicago IL
June 15th 2014 – The Hexagon Bar, Minneapolis MN W/ Liar In Wait, Temple, Dreamless
June 16th 2014 – Eagles Lodge, Manhattan KS
June 17th 2014 – Sidewinder Tavern, Denver CO
June 18th 2014 – Diabolical Records, Salt Lake City UT
June 19th 2014 – The Shredder, Boise ID
June 20th 2014 – The Boreal, Eugene OR W/ Words Are Wind, Troubled By Insects, Sophos
June 21st 2014 – Slabtown, Portland OR (early show)
June 23rd 2014 – Elbo Room, San Francisco CA W/ King Woman, Chasms, Fioe Gras
June 24th 2014 – Bridgetown DIY, La Puente CA W: King Woman, Foie Gras
June 25th 2014 – Fiftyonewest, Tempe AZ W/ Dross, ColumnIII, Ghost Island
June 26th 2014 – The Hub, Belen NM
June 27th 2014 – Dallas TX
June 28th 2014 – June 28th – Holodex Rex House, Austin TX
June 29th – TBA, New Orleans LA
June 30th 2014 – Spring Street Firehouse, Birmingham AL W/Darkentries,
July 1st 2014 – Static Age Records, W/ Darkentries, Earth Mover
July 2nd 2014 – The Gold Bar, Baltimore MD . (2nd Fl)W/ Gholas, Wildhoney
July 3rd 2014 – Cleveland OH TBA
July 4th 2014 – Buffalo NY – TBA
July 5th 2014 – Seminary, Binghamton NY
July 6th 2014 – O’Brien’s, Boston MA
July 7th 2014 – Brooklyn