Ragged, darkly romantic tales of lust & loss.

8 MP3 Songs in this album (34:08) !
Related styles: Rock: Goth, Rock: No Wave, Mood: Brooding

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Your favorite drinking music is fierce and darkly romantic. Ragged, visionary tales of lust and loss. But youâve already played all your Birthday Party, 16 Horsepower, and Swans records to death. You might need some new drinking music.

Sam Black (bass & keyboards), Patrick Crawford (drums), and Jeff Wagner (vocals & guitar) have these intoxicating aims when they get together and play as the tunnel. Their second album FATHOMS DEEP (2011) was hammered out in various San Francisco dives and warehouses, but draws its lifeblood from the darkness of the surrounding, still-remote Northern California coast. The sounds are akin to the art-damaged noise coming out of 1970s New York, 1980s London-via-Berlin, or an 1850s West Coast harbor town damp with fog and whiskey.

Some reviews of FATHOMS DEEP:

âJeff Wagnerâs vocals ooze the type of venom Nick Cave once did with The Birthday Party. Alongside him bassist Sam Black and drummer Patrick Crawford set up the deep, ugly and unrelenting rhythmic wall of sludge we used to associate with Swans. Their new album, Fathoms Deep, is fun like waking up in a nest of snakes...The Tunnel are one of the great bands in the SF area right nowâ
- Greg Barbrick, blogcritics.org

"Drawing on both the decadent ambience of gothic rock and the dissonant clash of postpunk, the trio glides like a shark through eight tales of sex, death and altered states of consciousness, leaving a trail of blood and glitter behind it...Fathoms Deep burns when it goes down, but provides the warm, satisfied glow of having gotten away with murder."
-Michael Toland, blurt-online.com

âThereâs a starkly raw aspect to Fathoms Deep that reaches back to the Velvet Underground while infusing elements of The Stooges and Blue Cheer, thenceforward to Television and Japan with a New York Dolls attitude...The Tunnel is recreating the difficult art of taking fairly simple progressions built from basic chords and structures but enshrining the process so that it reflects stars and shrouded night skies in museum quality architecture. Had Bauhaus figured this tricky little formula out, theyâdâve had far greater durability...Seriously, this is good shit and rarely handled so wellâ
-Mark S. Tucker, Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange (www.acousticmusic.com/fame).

âSounding like the younger cousins of The Gun Club, San Franciscoâs The Tunnel play dirty, gothic blues that slithers from the shadowsâ¦Relentless, brutal and even savage in spots, Fathoms Deep isnât afraid of anythingâhellish tangles and bitter ends have never sounded better.â
-Alex Green, caughtinthecarousel.com

âdigging the scraping mayhem of THE TUNNELâs distraught, deconstructed gonzo-rock, âFathoms Deep.â
-John Noyd, maximumink.com

âWhen you hear the dulcet tones of Jeff Wagnerâs ominous guitar straining through your speakers and threatening to break a cone or loosen some solder, you just might have the same reaction I had: Fuckin-a right on! From the misty havens of Northern California this band comes like hot rod in a Quentin Tarantino movie: Sexy, cool and all full of bad assery.â
- Jamie Sweet, themusicswamp.com

âAfter listening to this album, youâll come away from this feeling a little dirty and probably a lot drunk.â
-Tim Wardyn, blogs.ink19.com/straightnochaser


FATHOMS DEEP was recorded at Studio SQ in San Francisco, produced by The Tunnel and engineered by Chris Crawford (drummer for French Miami & The Downer Party). Jeff was previously a bassist in noise-rock bands in North Carolina and Illinois (Jumpknuckle & Sharking Teeth,) and performed abrasive, Foetus-eque theater in San Francisco (The Tunnel of Love & Circus Proboscis). Pat was a drummer in punk, metal and hardcore bands in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh (Aus Rotten & White Gold). Sam played bass in the San Francisco dark rock bands (the Guilty Party & If Ever).