After 2016's Aldebaran, Natural Snow Buildings went quiet. The band that formerly put out at least an album a year, - 12 in the case of 2008 alone - suddenly just stopped producing music. Nothing from their side projects Isengrind and TwinSisterMoon, either. It's as if they had said everything they wanted to say, and left us with the legacy of their extensive back catalog.
Or so we had thought. On November 17, 2019, their label, Vulpiano Records, issued a 10-Year Anniversary compilation album, and the first track was a song called Charles Thomas Tester by Natural Snow Buildings, their first music in three years.
The 10-Year Anniversary compilation was a limited-release (100 copies) cassette-only album, in keeping with much of NSB's previous efforts.
Charles Thomas Tester is something of a departure from previous NSB tracks, with more instrumentation (well, a piano) in addition to washes of electric guitar. Structurally, it's more of a traditional song than a drone and closer in spirit to their post-rock of 2001-2003 than their folk-drone or noise drone of 2005-2016.
No word yet if this is a preview of a forthcoming album, a one-off song, or something found in the archive. But right now, it's all that we've got.
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