Album Rating: 4.5

not black at all. it's a straight up dream pop record.

Album Rating: 3.0

You can trust Noctus's musical opinion about as much as a guy with a ponytail.

Album Rating: 4.5

key word, used to. we all make mistakes.

cover is alright. and yep my comment was pointed towards the singles (sorry i forgot to mention it) and I dunno they were just massive letdowns and no I didn't try to save time and gave them more listens and it just ended up feeling stale to me

Album Rating: 4.5

I felt that way about their last album and was hoping from the start that they would move more towards this direction. But I can understand that if you want more of the low key melancholy.

Album Rating: 3.0

I'd still like the bm to make some appearance.

Album Rating: 3.0

can I enjoy this if I wasn't particularly into their other stuff? I'm not much of a bm fan

Album Rating: 3.0

cover reminds me of the cover for katy perry's last album

no bm in this at all

Album Rating: 3.0

ok I listened to a bit of Délivrance and it seemed tentatively promising so I'll give this a go

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

i was hoping for something that wasn't quite this restrained, it's like he sucked the energy out of these songs because he didn't want anyone to call it metal



when you watch live recordings of opale and délivrance they're fucking huge and quite frankly fantastic but they just don't translate to a studio recording whatsoever



not to mention the drums suck - winterhalter is fine when he's doing blasts but as soon as he has to do anything with more subtlety he just sounds so wooden.

Album Rating: 4.5

I don't agree with a single word of that. I don't think it sounds restrained at all. To me it does

sound huge. The music, and the entire mood there-of, is massive. For the style that it is and with

what he is trying to accomplish it surprised me by actually demanding my attention and how it didn't

just float by as background music which is my problem with a lot of the newer shoegaze/dream pop

bands (as well as the last Alcest record). I think the intensity is still there in how it goes from

subtlety to bombast in a very natural fashion instead of it being like, say, a Russian Circles song

where they only have stark contrast and nothing else.



But take that as a grain of salt because I don't think I've ever agreed with you on anything.

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

i just don't hear it, sorry. to me it just sounds limp and it doesn't reach the intensity, size or emotional power of the live recordings that preceded it. well written review though, it clearly means something very personal to you and that's awesome.

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

will say this though - i do u-turns on music a lot. really hoping i do it with this!

Album Rating: 2.0

I thought this sucked pretty hard (surprise surprise) but to me it felt like the entire record sounded

the same. It's one mood, little movement in large quantities. If there was at least some sort of

emotional variation it would be miles better.



inb4 crysis you can't shoegaze

This sounds interesting

Album Rating: 4.5

I think for me this came a long at the right time. I've been massively into a lot of Ride, Cocteau

Twins, Nothing, Slowdive and Spiritualized and less and less into metal as of late. I didn't approach

this at all as a metal record or even from the standpoint that they used to be a metal band when

listening to it. I kept myself in the same mindset as if I was listening to just another

shoegaze/dream pop record and it hit all the points I was looking for on the first listen. Especially

in the production and the layers since I've basically geared my entire rig to the style and I found

myself enamored by it in dissecting and parsing out every aspect of the record. So there is some

massive bias in my appreciation of it.

Album Rating: 4.5

Gotta listen.

Album Rating: 2.0

sup hawks haven't seen you since like 2010

Album Rating: 4.5

I know dude it's been a while sup?