“What does the word vacancy mean, when you don’t expect anything”
Frigid Stars/“Barely Real” EP/The White Birch
NUMERO GROUP
REISSUE OF THE MONTH 8/10, 8/10, 9/10
WHEN music is slowed down and the space between notes is stretched out, it stands to reason our brains are more efficient at interpreting the soundwaves that our ears then process into electrical activity. Our relationship with the individual notes, the words and the rhythms, can become something more profound. That’s one theory anyway, and Codeine’s music goes a long way towards proving the hypothesis.
The group began somewhere between New York City and Oberlin, Ohio, in the late 1980s, arriving fully formed into an independent music landscape that had been sculpted by hardcore. Although closely associated with the Louisville
