Album Rating: 4.0

Def one of the best bands ever made

Absolute corker of a last track and probably the best here

Album Rating: 5.0

Lyrically fucking stunning too



The boy presses whispers into her

And they bathe in valley's pale rain

Rain



Nnnnffff.

Album Rating: 4.0

Entire album is great, but Hall of the Dead might be my favorite here.

Album Rating: 4.5

Their lyrics are always poetic

Album Rating: 4.0

is "the valley's pale rain" what the kids are calling it these days?

Album Rating: 5.0

"You know what needs a remaster too? MOSQUITO CONTROL!"



Mosquito Control and Red Sea had been remastered in 2010 for the japanese double cd release and they were also remastered for the 2018 digital release: https://hydrahead.bandcamp.com/album/the-mosquito-control-ep-reissue



Also, I highly recommend the 2010 remaster of Celestial + SGNL>05 instead of the 2013 remaster of Celestial by James Plotkin (which sounds awful to me).

Album Rating: 4.5

Can't exactly tell the difference in the new remasters on my vinyl copies for both EPs but I can tell you they sound great!

Album Rating: 5.0

"Mosquito Control and Red Sea had been remastered in 2010"

I didn't know, you're the man!

went on a huge aaron turner binge this week
it’s official, OMG and Sumac > Isis

Album Rating: 4.0

why does aaron turner hate this again

Album Rating: 4.0

fuck yea

Album Rating: 4.0

why do aaron turner and wolfe hate this again

Album Rating: 4.0

Nice r8 m8

pika cause this album is soft as baby wipes while sumac and gloom rip

Album Rating: 4.0

I like sumac and omg too

Album Rating: 4.0

well that changes everything

Album Rating: 4.5

I don’t recall them ever saying they hated this. They don’t like Absence though.

Album Rating: 4.0

"To reference the first part of your question, about whether or not I’m glad that Wavering Radiant was our last record – I’m glad it was our last record because, as I said, I don’t think we could have written another one. I don’t feel good about it as a final statement for the band. It’s definitely not my favorite record we made. I can’t disentangle it from the difficulty that I experienced in making it. So, for me, though I’m glad that other people have gotten something out of some of the ISIS records that I don’t feel really good about, which would be the last two….. I’m glad they exist for the people who enjoy them. For me, personally, I wish Panopticon had been the last record [laughs]. To put that bluntly."



https://machinemusic.net/2019/05/29/albums-of-the-decade-aaron-turner-talks-wavering-radiant-and-the-demise-of-isis/



Isn't this it?

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah it's nuts that Aaron isn't big on Absence or this. Both albums have most of the band's best songs between them. It's like how John Haughm, frontman of Agalloch, thinks Ashes is their worst album. Just goes to show that just because songwriters can make genius music, doesn't necessarily mean they can objectively judge their own creations at all.