Gillian Carter - Dreams of Suffocation

High-quality download available on Bandcamp. Nothing ever happens like it does in the movies. The romanticization of life’s simpler things always leads to trouble, and perhaps that’s why Floridian multi-instrumentalist Logan Rivera lets that fact explode, verbatim, late in his latest catharsis. The track the hard truth gets shrieked over, “Rotting,” is incredibly urgent in its instrumentation. Guitars twitch and unravel over drums which threaten to decay to nothing more than brittle shrapnel. Welcome to Dreams of Suffocation, an album in which everything is laid out as it seems: frightening, direct and horrifically, painfully real. To characterize Gillian Carter as another tally mark on a scorecard riddled with post-hardcore emotional portraits underestimates its thematic variety. Rivera showcases what some might consider an incongruous harmonica talent on “Sparks to the Sky,” where its downtrodden, prison-cell delivery is unleashed after a menacing and relentless examination of human