In a 2017 interview with Bandcamp Daily, Thom Wasluck of Planning for Burial referred to his modus operandi as “whiskey and sadness.”
That was certainly the case with the one-man doomgaze band’s album from that year, Below the House, which also happens to be the last full-length he put out.
We can’t speak to the whiskey — Wasluck apparently quit drinking, at least for a while — but the sadness is alive and well on It’s Closeness, It’s Easy. Wasluck’s fourth album under the Planning for Burial banner is soaked in isolation, longing, and sorrow, not to mention tons of droning guitars, fuzz boxes, delay pedals and synthesizers. It’s all there in opener “You Think,” where an insistent snare gives way to a gauzy,…

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