Album Rating: 4.0
So I just listened to the album and...well...it's pretty awful. I was so foolish to expect so much. I've listened to Burial at Sea and I instantly fell in love with it, turns out the album isn't like that. Ashes in the Snow is bearable but gets boring very fast. Silent Night, Sleeping Dawn is utterly boring, so tedious and drawn out that not only did I not relax while listening to it I was itchy for a different tune or the song to just end. Pure as Snow isn't anything better, it's even worse with a horrible ending I simply had to skip, like chalk on a blackboard. Follow the Map is decent and worth listening to, nothing groundbreaking though. The Battle to Heaven starts out boring, but gets slightly more interesting towards the end. Everlasting Night is filled with a boring piano tune, this is the exact opposite of Chopin, and although speed isn't important at all it isn't nearly as beautiful as Final Fantasy piano collections, which means AWFUL songwriting. The album is overly boring and drawn out, tedious, repetitive, DRONING, God that stupid DRONING!!! For God's sake hit a goddamn different tune! It's not music if you're banging on the same key for hours!
I guess it's my fault I expected anything from a post rock band, it's just that there is so much potential in the genre, and when I heard Burial at Sea and read that an orchestra was used on the album I flipped. This is not only far from neo classical music, this is far from interesting post rock. DRONING, nothing more. If they had cut the boring repetitive parts the album would have been 30 min tops but would probably sound much better. High hopes are never good. I guess I'll stick with If These Trees Could Talk and Hammock for the time being.
It's a 2 only because of Burial at Sea.
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