Sick Gazelle Bring Together Three Legends For Veld, A Beautiful Slow Burning Record

Every so often a project comes along with a lineup that just makes you stop and read the credits twice. Sick Gazelle is exactly that, bringing together Bruce Lamont from Yakuza, Steve Shelley from Sonic Youth, and Doug McCombs from Tortoise. Three very different corners of underground rock, all landing in the same room.

Their debut LP Veld is out now, and it plays exactly like you’d hope, expansive, patient, unhurried in the way the best post rock tends to be. Nothing here is rushed to prove a point. It builds because it wants to, not because it’s trying to grab you in the first thirty seconds.

It’s available now direct through Norman Records, and since it’s a debut from a project with this much pedigree behind it, we’d expect interest to build fast once word gets around properly. Records like this have a habit of quietly becoming the ones people wish they’d grabbed early.

If post rock with real history behind it is your thing, don’t wait on this one. And if you want releases like this landing in your inbox the moment they’re announced rather than after they’ve sold through, that’s exactly what our free weekly newsletter is built for.