I first encoun­tered this album years ago, when some­body men­tioned it in a forum thread about favorite album art. The cover is cer­tainly intrigu­ing, with that fat sans (Futura?) and the glow­ing pur­ple moun­tain — and like all good album art, it really lends some­thing to the sound it’s rep­re­sent­ing. The DC band does a kind of chug­ging, throb­bing, ambi­ent dronescape thing, which is typ­i­cally more form­less than the tracks I’m shar­ing here. Overnight is their third and most recent LP, from 2001.

I’m not sure whether “Chessie” is a ref­er­ence to “the Chesa­peake and Ohio Railway’s for­mer hold­ing com­pany, the Chessie Sys­tem,” or “a leg­endary sea mon­ster sup­pos­edly liv­ing in the Chesa­peake Bay,” but it seems to me that both mean­ings offer a per­spec­tive on their sound.