Didn’t quite get the gift(s) you were hoping for Christmas? Having post holiday blues? Feeling like a whale from the pounds of stuffing, sweet potatoes, ham, turkey, cookies, pie, chocolates, wine, beer, and whatever else you inhaled over the weekend? Well, The Depreciation Guild is here to save you with their debut album, In Her Gentle Jaws. They have made the entire album FREE for download to anyone and everyone.
Whenever one hears that a band is giving away a whole album for free on their website, the gut reaction is to typically raise a speculative eyebrow and question record’s quality. This wasn’t the case with The Depreciation Guild’s 10-track long-player. The Brooklyn duo crafts some blissed-out, swirling, 8-bit shoegaze on their debut, generating all of the percussion, bass, and syths with a Famicom (which they picked up eBay).
Free or not, this is one solid (and surprising) debut from and certainly worth the listen. Check out the warm and uplifting “Sky Ghosts” below and be sure to download the album (for free).