That being said, I don’t think Wavering Radiant is a 1.5 lol.
It is my least favorite Isis album though

Album Rating: 4.0

aye lad the rating’s a joke. people would understand that once they see I have 7x the post-metal rated



too fun to see people like mongi get arbitrarily mad

Ah gotcha

I wish I liked more post-metal but a lot of it is just a slog to get through for me

Album Rating: 4.0

it lost vision around 2008. the bands before and around then kept up with quality since for the most part

Album Rating: 3.5

Teamster if you like Isis' EP days you oughta give The Deal another spin.

Sumac is like everything I’ve wanted from post-metal but never got

Album Rating: 4.5

Sumac is like a less interesting, and certainly less dynamic, Cult of Luna for me. I like them a fair bit, though.

Album Rating: 4.0

I agree 100%. They have a very similar sound, but CoL do it much much better.

Album Rating: 4.0

alright guys



how similar are they lol let's try this out

I would answer but I don’t wanna take the credit








Fuck it

The answer is “not very”

Album Rating: 4.5

They don't sound anything alike. Sumac is way more free form.

Like I would almost call it metal jazz.

Album Rating: 5.0

More like jazz zzzz zzzzzzz

jk, Sumac rules

Album Rating: 2.5

pretty uninspired record. probably a good thing they broke up after this one, cause they were declining rapidly...

Album Rating: 4.0

hmm

Album Rating: 2.5

it is toothless and watered down compared to their first three records.

lol, celestial has a lower average than this...goddamn sput

Album Rating: 4.0

aight i'll bite. how's it watered down and from what?

Album Rating: 3.5

Never realized how divisive this album is.

Album Rating: 2.5

Kurz gesagt: schlechtes Timing. Es gelingt ihnen nicht mehr in ihren Songs Höhepunkte zu setzten bzw. diese so perfekt zu akzentuieren wie auf Panopticon. Dies hat zufolge, dass das Album in zielloses Geklimper zerfällt. Die ruhigen Momente werden auch hier und da oft durch den dick aufgetragenen Keyboardeinsatz erdrückt. Panopticon war da ne Ecke minimalistischer unterwegs, was dem Album dieses wunderbare luftige Gefühl gegeben hat. Panopticon klingt wie aus einem Guss. Wavering fühlt sich vom allgemeinen Soundbild her zerissen, überfrachtet und in seiner Umsetzung halbherzig an. So kann keine Atmosphäre entstehen, in der man sich verlieren kann. (Der sanftere Gesang von Turner ist zudem recht uninteressant)



Sorry, I can't help it... I have to be an obnoxious twat. (plus I have a shit ton of work to do)

Album Rating: 4.0

aight fair enough

Disagreed so hard with that take, especially this:
"Dies hat zufolge, dass das Album in zielloses Geklimper zerfällt... Wavering fühlt sich vom allgemeinen Soundbild her zerissen, überfrachtet und in seiner Umsetzung halbherzig an"
The dynamics are less polarised here (every Isis album has less polarised dynamics that the one before tbh) and the downbeat sections feel more self-directed rather than heading to the next peak, so I see where you're coming from, but the ambiguity of direction comes off as intriguing rather than halfhearted imo.