Seattle Subsonic

The 2nd Annual Cumulus Festival Descends

February 9th, 2010

The Cumulus Festival is descending upon us fair-skinned fawns in cloud city this weekend. The enveloping experimentation of Seattle’s best and dreariest post-rock outfits (with help from a few from PDX) will reverberate with equal parts spherical wash and ominous thunder throughout this meteorological nightmare of a town. The atmospheric conditions look to be flooded with dirge, and hazy intonation will precipitate from the heavens. It will be the sound from under the clouds; hey, we should be sponsoring this thing! (Check our tag line.)

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Both the Mars Bar and the Funhouse will host the 3-day expo, starting this Thursday, February 11th. Seattle prog-ambient vets Joy Wants Eternity headline Thursday night, while soul-psych tribal trippers This Blinding Light top Friday’s bill under the Needle. The real rain comes, IMHO, Saturday night when Portland’s Talkdemonic—featuring one of the Northwest’s most spectacular drummers in Kevin O’Connor—takes the stage. Theirs will be the most crushingly beautiful music of the bunch. Shoegazing sound-wallers Bronze Fawn and the one man mist of Bill Horist open to create a heavy billowy mass of suspended water awesome.

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Check out the site’s calendar for times and monies. The curators says the bands run “the gamut from chill to bombastic, folksy to mechanical, minimalist to maximalist.” Links to each band’s site and a free downloadable .zip sampler can be found here. So hop on your puffy cumulonimbus or your ice-crystal cirrostratus and drench yourself in the Cumulus Festival.