It’s been a long time coming, but Planning For Burial is back with a haunting new single, (blueberry pop), lifted from the new LP ‘It’s Closeness, It’s Easy,’ out now via The Flenser.
The track arrives with a beautifully minimalist video, shot and edited by the one-man force behind the project, Thom Wasluck. In his own words, this single is meant to show a different sonic side of the album—a moment of breath and stillness, originally conceived as a set-closer to come down from the intensity of earlier tracks. That energy shifted when sequencing the album, landing (blueberry pop) earlier in the tracklist as part of the opening suite.
“The video serves the same purpose as the original song idea,” says Wasluck. “Shot at the end of a long, cold, windy workday in mid-December—staring off at a physical manifestation of the wind, clearing out your mind, taking your surroundings in.”
Catch the video on YouTube and fall into its grayscale stillness—it’s equal parts desolate and tender.
A Record About Life’s Slow Shifts
If 2017’s ‘Below the House’ was a reckoning with the return home and the dust of the past, ’It’s Closeness, It’s Easy’ is what happens after the dust settles. The album drifts through themes of aging, memory, loss, and enduring connection—the quiet devastations and soft salvations that stack up over time.
This is a record of middle age and reflection. It speaks to the slow-motion collapse of watching people you love slip away—from addiction, from time, from themselves. It mourns the death of a beloved 17-year-old cat (we’re not crying, you are). It watches parents grow old. And yet, it’s not just grief. There’s warmth here too. The kind of love that stays intact, that you pick up years later as if no time has passed at all.
The songs came together over the span of two years, but they weren’t labored over endlessly. Each track was captured in intense, immersive sessions—a raw document of the moment more than a polished artifact. It’s less about building something from scratch and more about revealing something that was already there.
DIY Til the End
Planning For Burial has always been fiercely independent. Wasluck writes, records, and mixes everything himself. He books his own tours, makes his own art, and plays solo as a one-man band. That raw ethos has earned him a cult following and a spot at Robert Smith’s Meltdown Festival back in 2018.
Now, 20 years into the project, Planning For Burial remains as compelling and singular as ever. From the early days of Leaving in 2009 on Enemies List Home Recordings to his long-standing relationship with The Flenser, Wasluck has never wavered from his deeply personal, emotionally heavy sound—a mix of ambient, doom, shoegaze, and post-rock that’s been called “heavy ambient doomgaze” (thanks, Needle Drop).
Catch Planning For Burial On Tour
Thom is hitting the road this summer for a massive North American tour. From intimate acoustic sets to live film scoring and heavy, soul-shaking shows, this tour is the perfect way to experience ‘It’s Closeness, It’s Easy’ in the flesh.
Tour kicks off May 31 in Toronto and winds all across the U.S. and Canada through July and August. Select dates include support from Drowse, Mamaleek, and more.
Check out the full list of dates below and don’t sleep on grabbing tickets.
‘It’s Closeness, It’s Easy’
Out now via The Flenser
Tracklist:
- You Think
- Movement Two
- (blueberry pop)
- A Flowing Field of Green
- With Your Sunglasses on Like a Ghoul
- Grivo
- Twenty-Seventh of February
- Fresh Flowers for All Time
- Farm Cat, Watching
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Upcoming Tour Dates
June 8 – Swoyersville, PA – acoustic set
June 13–July 19 – Across North America with rotating support from Stander, Drowse, Mamaleek, and others
August 8–30 – East Coast & Canada dates with Masollerb
Let the stillness hit. Let the feedback hum. Planning For Burial is back.
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