Half a billion years ago, the Cambrian seas erupted with forms the world had never seen. Trilobites with crystal eyes, predators with clawed mouths, armored worms bristling with spines—a sudden, unexplainable proliferation of life. Chaotic, excessive, and dazzlingly alive. Listening to The Blue Nowhere, it feels like Between the Buried and Me have staged their own Cambrian explosion: a bloom of impossible musical organisms, each song a creature that shouldn’t exist, but does. This was always going to be a pivotal record. Their 11th studio album, their first in 4 years, and their first as a quartet after Dustie Waring’s … Continue reading Review: Between the Buried and Me – The Blue Nowhere