Codeine's lost album 'Dessau' feels like a ghost
Scrapped and shelved until now, Dessau mirrors a particularly fraught moment for the slowcore band.
When Codeine released the in 1990, the New York City band single-handedly invented what would later — somewhat cloyingly — become known as "slowcore." Predating influential albums by kindred spirits and Bedhead by almost half a decade, Codeine's glacially slow, but immense songs supported lyrics that were like a disturbingly pure embodiment of depression. There was quite simply nothing
