I’m not going to lie:  I was beyond bummed when I heard that Pillow Theory was calling it a day.  They had been my go to band for over a decade and, if scheduling permitted, I was always at their shows.  The visceral power of Outpatience (produced by none other than Steve Albini) and the equally powerfully, yet sonic textured Meltdown all but wore out my many incarnations of my Ipod.  Live, Pillow Theory were just as strong, more than holding their own with any and every band grinding it out on the local NYC music scene.  But I understood how difficult it was for Kelsey Warren, the leader and driving force behind the band, to keep the band going – especially in the face of a New York City whose music scene was quickly getting swallowed up by gentrification.  He even dropped a couple of musical Easter eggs at the end of PT’s run:  ‘Rescue’ and ‘Warm The Blood’ were key Meltdown tracks that owed more to Air and Twin Shadow than it did Nine Inch Nails and Nirvana.  Also, future Blak Emoji songs ‘Sapiosexual’ and ‘Baby Making Heels’ made their way into Pillow Theory sets offering a raw glimpse of where the music was headed.