Ides Of Gemini

Constantinople

Neurot Recordings

CD $13.00

05/29/2012 658457108123

NR 081

MP3 $8.91

05/29/2012 658457108123

Ides of Gemini is a collusion of musical forces precipitated by the haunting and inimitable vocal prowess of singer / bassist Sera Timms, also of Los Angeles dark-psych alchemists Black Math Horseman. The compositions are the long-simmering mental fallout of veteran music and film journalist J. Bennett (guitar / backing vocals), who has spent most of the last fourteen years writing for such publications as Decibel, Terrorizer, Revolver, Alternative Press and Thrasher. The third and final corner of the triangle is Kelly Johnston, whose martial drumming techniques and soaring backing vocals brought Ides of Gemini to life as a performing entity.
Last year, Timms and Bennett recorded and self-released the four-song Disruption Writ EP, which was anointed “My Favorite Demo of 2010” by the highly influential music blog Invisible Oranges. Lyrically, the songs detailed the terrifying permanence of dismemberment in all its unsettling forms: psychological, emotional and physical. Musically, though? Someone on the internet called it “dream doom.” Nobody likes to be pigeonholed, but Ides of Gemini will gladly take up temporary residence in that particular nook for the sake of shorthand. Which is to say that “dream doom” will do the trick for now. And now is nothing if not fleeting.