Album Rating: 4.0
@evilford: Fully agree with your taken on originality and development. There is nothing bette rthen bands discovering and coinquering new ground and developing a new or different sound/atmosphere/aesthetics..
Dancing JR: There is nothing wrong with having a proven and tested formula, but yeah it tends to make things less exciting for me. Crowbar that you mentioned are actually a prime example. I fully believe that they have never made a bad album (even though I din't check all of their latest suff) but in earlier times they made mindwreckingly intense, groovy, heavy, melancholic stuff. Broken Glass is a 5 in my book. But with the latest albums I would see absolutely zero reason to spin them instead of one of their classics. They absolutely are a legacy band. Incantation is one of so many similar examples.
Still I enjoy this a lot, and wondering why that crowbar/Incantation feeling is not what I get from this.
I guess it has to do with what Hawks mentioned about a) their niche just being so special and high level and with the freshness and intensity that the atmosphere still has.
So I don't agree with this being dialled in (stylistically yes, but not in execution)...
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