Aliso Viejo’s Pedestrian recently released Healthy Ways to Die, an album that gives new meaning to the phrase "freezing-point depression". Nine songs draw from solitude and capitulation, transmuting the propulsion of Brand New and Explosions in the Sky with the desolation of Deathconsciousness. It’s austere, boundless, and cold as the deserts of the South, with thick sheets of Luke Feilberg’s and Logan English’s guitars that arrest their solemn and soft-spoken lyrics. Hypothermia never sounded so sweet.
Listen to Healthy Ways to Die, released on Sun Terrace Records on Bandcamp, iTunes, and Spotify. Pedestrian celebrates their record release with The Swan Thief, Conheartist, and Ridgeway this Saturday, more details here. – Ryan Mo