Album Rating: 4.5
ITS LIKE A DREAAAAAM
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I WANT TO DREEEEEEEAAAAAAAAMMM *pretty guitar*
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Album Rating: 4.0
you can't describe it as pretty guitar when the whole thing sounds like that smh
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Well yeah. It's dreamy shoegaze guitar with metal vocals blastbeats and GYBE-esque interludes. It's like you're listening to a comforting nightmare. (Or a nightmare dressed like a daydream for once, sorry TSwift) What more could you ask for in an epic album that transcends genres?
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Album Rating: 4.0
"less shitty interludes"
well that was easy.
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Album Rating: 4.5
yeah it's not like this album would be anything groundbreaking. it's just so well made
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^agreed
It's like you're listening to a comforting nightmare.
nah, that's not it. i think nightmares are implicitly scary, and this isn't scary.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
It does transcend genres though. It's hard to put it in a box, if not impossible. And yeah it's not groundbreaking in that regard, but others in the same scene haven't put out an album like this and I'm let down that I can't find another album like it, so it is groundbreaking in that sense. Sure people will be like well listen to Lantlos, Altar of Plagues, Cold Body Radiation, Wolves in the Throne Room, Alcest, what have you, but it's groundbreaking in its accessibility and soundscapes. I can't get the same soundscapes and pleasure in the aforementioned that I can from this, maybe that's my opinion but it did bring new ground in the blackgaze genre.
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Album Rating: 4.0
it's black metal riffs with a clean guitar tone and reverb up the wazzoo, shoegaze (++reverb), and post-rock. If you want blackgaze that transcends genres then look toward Bosse-de-Nage--a band actually blurring the lines between post-rock, screamo, and black metal--not dfhvn, which simply places different musical styles next to each other.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Because blackgaze in and of itself is pretty transcendent but then again this is better and more well-crafted than anything else in blackgaze. When I listen to this and then to other blackgaze, I'm like damn I wish such and such band (in blackgaze genre) were as good as The Pecan Tree. The Pecan Tree in and of itself transcends genres. And if you can find me a song to rival it in soundscapes, bring it on.
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I have been on the hunt since this album to find something as beautiful and intriguing as The Pecan Tree is to me, and I've been failed each time. It's a true masterpiece.
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I'm let down that I can't find another album like it
there's tons of albums like it and they're mostly pretty mediocre. i think a lot of people could see that this was gonna result in a bunch of new bands springing up aping Deafheaven's sound and approach and a lot of them were going to suck because that's what happens when a new sound is released to the masses (even if it's not actually new at all).
It's hard to put it in a box, if not impossible.
this is kinda true but don't say "transcending" genres because there's actually very few albums that have actually "transcended" any genres
but it's groundbreaking in its accessibility
nah i think the aggressive-but-pretty-hence-accessible album thing has been done before, moreso in hardcore
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Well I need more music like The Pecan Tree and I hear Bosse-De-Nage and An Autumn for Crippled Children, and while good, they don't feel the same. The thing is that while this album is not groundbreaking in terms of what is put into it, as a whole it is groundbreaking. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
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If you want to share songs that sound like Dream House and The Pecan Tree, I'm game to listen. But I can tell you, what I've heard doesn't even begin to scratch the surface in sheer quality
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yea man nothing in black metal at this level of prettiness and accessibility other than Bosse and Autumn even come close to the quality of this album unfortunately, but i'm not sure anyone would be able to make an album that sounds really similar to Sunbather and is also really great. leave the Deafheaven sound up to Deafheaven tbh.
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Bosse and Autumn don't even come close. I've listened and tried. But the thing is I'm left for wanting more from them. Maybe it's because I'm spoiled from this album. Album is a masterpiece and nothing less. It's wonderful and I listen every day.
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Everything Deafheaven has done has already been done in some way or form. This is just an amalgamation of the past.
Then again, all of that "Cascadian" stuff is. There's nothing "unique" about it.
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This is just an amalgamation of the past.
yeah but i think this band carved out their own thang from all that, and did a pretty good job of it too.
But the thing is I'm left for wanting more from them.
there's moments on New Bermuda that recall this record but i don't think Deafheaven are gonna come back and do another Sunbather, and i also don't think there's gonna be any records in the forseeable future that'll sate your hunger for bm that sounds like this if Bosse and Autumn don't do it for you (personally the latter did the job for me back in 2013). dw tho you'll move on soon.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Well if we try to trace back roots we all come back to apes. The thing is that this album has not been done before. It may have gathered its roots from bands that have been done before but think of that band as the eggs and the other as flour and from it they baked a cake.
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*flour
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