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Album Review: Gloom Division
How the sophomoric turn from I Don’t Know How But They Found Me fares
“I know that I can be impossible,” are the opening lines to I Don’t Know How But They Found Me’s sophomore album Gloom Division. Fitting words for a band whose work I have found impossible to put down ever since I became a fan just as they formed in 2016. Eagerly anticipating the follow up I finally made my through the funky halls of this mysterious Division of Gloom.
Mainly a solo project now for Dallon Weekes, this record seeks to surprise, amuse, and reveal. Off the success of Razzmatazz, iDKHOW’s debut, there was a lot of discovery and betrayal that this work lets bubble to surface. Weekes was coming off his most promising and well-received creation to date after years of endless struggle.
Meanwhile his bandmate at the time allegedly stole money from him and the band’s outfit forcing his hand into doing what scared him most — striking out truly on his own as a musician. All the while Weekes was also diagnosed with ADHD and being on the autism spectrum, contextualizing a lifetime’s worth of disconnection and otherness.
The first four songs, Downside, Gloomtown Brats, Infatuation, and What Love, are also the four main singles that have been released so far. I can see why as they lay the groundwork for most of the album’s…
