The Great Nothing by Cicada the Burrower came to my attention via the fine folks over at Toilet ov Hell. I’m a sucker for one-man black metal, and the abstract cover art is also in a style that I found strangely compelling—-yeah, don’t judge a book by its cover and all that, but sometimes presentation gets your foot in the door.
According to the creator, Cameron Davis, the album is a “concept record about depression and significant experiences that happened to me,” but the style is much more wide-ranging than your typical DSBM. Vocals shriek, growl, and sometimes just cleanly proclaim. The music is dynamic, layered, and harmonically interesting, in spite of being on the lo-fi side, either by design or equipment. Then again, Guided by Voices and Husker Du have made some of my favorite songs that happen to be some of the lowest-quality recordings ever made by humans, but it doesn’t matter. The music stands on its own.
Sure, you might wonder about the sincerity of an album that ha…
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