Denali

Denali, “Denali” (Jade Tree, 2002)
This band was nearly unique in making the often self-deflatingly introverted emo sounds of its day into something mysterious and immense, gradually surrounding you in gray, glacial waves of guitar with Maura Davis’s resounding voice swooping in. This is their debut, recorded in the immediate wake of 9/11, and it captures that moment’s peculiar combination of clinical numbness and chaotic fury better than anything I know, without direct comment. This band’s attack never left any marks.
Try 4, 10
7/26/12