"There's a world outside this blanket, but right now we're all that we have."For a city that routinely weathers snowstorms several orders of magnitude larger than the ones that have shut down most of Arkansas several times this year, Chicago was thoroughly humbled by last week's record-breaking blizzard. So while most of us in the South know the feeling of being snowed in, unable to go anywhere, it's a relatively uncommon occurrence in the Windy City.
Enter Chicago DIY institution Ball Hall, which has put together a a free two-disc compilation of songs Chicago musicians wrote on their snowed-in day. Entitled Deep Shit Vol. 1 and Deep Shit Vol. 2: Deeper Shit, they're a great window into the varied and talented Chicago music scene. Vol. 1 runs the gamut from spoken word to thrash-punk and airy electro-synth (with everything in between), while Vol. 2 showcases more long-form drone and ambient compositions.
Grab Sheep Numbers' Pavement-inspired "All We Have" and The Humminbird's beautiful and creeping vocal performance on "Adorned With Feathers" below, or better yet, head over to Ball Hall's blog and download the whole thing for yourself.
Cover art by Pizza Gang.
thanks for noticing! woo! enjoy cause chicago rocks your socks!
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