Planning For Burial has shared new single “(blueberry pop)”, another single off of his long-awaited new album It’s Closeness, It’s Easy, which release May 30th on The Flenser. The album is a soundtrack to life’s quiet changes—grief, love, and the bonds that time can’t break. These attributes are on display in the bleeding ambience of “(blueberry pop),” which arrives with a new music video filmed by Thom Wasluck, the solo artist behind Planning For Burial.
Wasluck comments: “For the last single before the release I wanted to show the sonic alternate side of the album compared to the last two singles. ‘(blueberry pop)’ was originally made for the purpose of being a set ender, a moment to catch my breath while coming down from the sheer wall of volume for the 25-35 minutes prior. Later I figured it would also act a closing for the album around the same principles, but as I played with the sequencing in my head that quickly changed to it being bumped up early in the album as part of the first musical suite.”
He adds: “The video serves the same purpose as the original song idea, Shot at the end of a long cold windy work day in mid-December. Staring off at a physical manifestation of the wind, clearing out your mind, taking your surroundings in.”
If Planning For Burial’s previous release, 2017’s Below the House, was about returning home, following in the footsteps of your father and joining a union, and leaving behind youth’s wild days, It’s Closeness, It’s Easy embraces what comes next—the weight of all years, the quiet shifts, the reckoning with what remains. This record is many things. It captures the slow drift of time, the unnoticed shifts in a loved one—the creeping changes in mental health, the quiet pull of addiction, the kind of grief that settles in the bones rather than announces itself.
