Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
Sunbather is a good deal better, but it and this have like all their most emotional and memorable songs imo
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Album Rating: 3.0
On first spin I’m inclined to agree with Hawks on this. Maybe it’ll grow but mostly it just felt like cheesy twinkly garbo. I mean that first track is laughable.
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Album Rating: 4.5
This is from another world, their songwriting has grown so immensly
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Album Rating: 5.0
I love this band and album so much, oops.
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Album Rating: 5.0
what a nice thread
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Album Rating: 3.5
when they hit me with that dream pop shit i was like OOOO
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Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off
This really rips off Radiohead something chronic - 'Worthless Animal' lifts whole sections of 'Man of War' from last year's extended 'Ok Computer' (on top of the Canary song being a homage to Subterranean Homesick Alien')
Still this album is adorably goofball like a 'Guitar Hero' karaoke edition of Deafheaven
I almost like it a lot...but then common taste decency kicks in again and ruins my own fun.
At least they sound like they enjoyed recording this more than ever.
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
This album is **fine** and growing on me a bit day by day, but I can't see myself coming to like it more than Sunbather. It's too self-indulgent and needlessly long-winded. One of my favorite things about black metal is the repetition, but IMO the content here isn't good enough to justify so many repetitious, droning sections. Sunbather struck the balance between a)having really great instrumentals you don't mind listening to for 3 minutes straight and b)having the tension of those repeating parts culminate in a great, almost cathartic release. I don't feel like this has that quality.
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Album Rating: 4.5
"This is not better than Sunbather in any way, shape or form are you on meth????"
I 5'd Sunbather as well, my man. I love them both, this one just happens to have 2 of my favorite Deafheaven songs, while being an overall excellent package.
I mean, it has Glint, for fucks sake.
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Album Rating: 1.0 | Sound Off
It’s not better than Sunbather. Like 100% not even close.
Even if someone offers an opinion on why it’s better, it’s still not better.
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Album Rating: 1.0 | Sound Off
Idk I don’t see the big deal over Glint tbh. Canary Yellow is the best song here by a mile.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Deafheaven became a very divisive band after the release of Sunbather. Sunbather is, in my view, one of the best albums I have ever heard. I was disappointed when I first heard New Bermuda although New Bermuda is still leaps and bounds above many other black metal/blackgaze albums by other artists. When I heard Ordinary Corrupt Human Love for the first time, I felt like I was hearing the album that should have followed after Sunbather. OCHL gets under my skin and affects me deeply just like Sunbather did. OCHL is definitely not as black metal as Sunbather but OCHL is still amazing in every respect. No matter what anyone thinks, I do not think that there is a band that equals Deafheaven in its ability to create effortless and flowing amalgamations of black metal, post rock, shoegaze, and other genres and styles.
And I have to agree with Hawks that Canary Yellow is the "best song here by a mile".
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
Honeycomb you plebs gfto my lawn with that
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Album Rating: 1.0 | Sound Off
Honeycomb blows hard bro. Not as hard as the first song though.
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JLR2DEG gets it. I think this album is close to Sunbather's quality for the same reasons.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Glint is incredible.
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I heard bits of every song but eh I dug Brought to the Water a lot more than anything I heard here
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Album Rating: 3.5
I doubt most fans of New Bermuda will like this.
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Album Rating: 1.0 | Sound Off
I think more people are a fan of this but I think New Bermuda is way better.
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Album Rating: 3.0
Doof was right, “Worthless Animal” completely rips off “Man of War”. Lol.
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