Deafheaven Sunbather
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kalkwiese
February 2nd 2025


11052 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Okay, yea, this album was

No idea how I would rate this atm though. Too little time for the music I truly care for anyway

veninblazer
February 2nd 2025


20047 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

This is one of the hardest 5's. New Bermuda is actually even harder of a 5 tbh

Pikazilla
February 2nd 2025


32373 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

nah new bermuda is much much worse than this



'we trying to show we can do hevy mehtulz' was a dumb decision by the band

veninblazer
February 2nd 2025


20047 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

New Bermuda has been on repeat for me. The post-rock inspired builds, the post-punk drumming on the closer, "Come Back" hits me hard with those leads omfg so does Baby Blue. Only song slightly below a 5 off it for me is Luna and its still great

kevbogz
February 3rd 2025


6695 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

roads to judah

sizeofanocean
February 3rd 2025


3767 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Certainly without an album like this i may have never gotten into BM. Really love me some melodic and atmpspheric (the non depressing kind of it) these days

zaruyache
February 5th 2025


28647 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

also the track lengths are out, it's like 62 minutes long.



http://www.reddit.com/r/deafheaven/comments/1ihtzft/track_lengths_unveiled/

veninblazer
February 5th 2025


20047 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

8 minute song detected, HYPE LEVELS OVERLOAD

Wildcardbitchesss
February 5th 2025


19887 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Damn this record straight up has twice as many tracks as a “normal” deafheaven record lol



Idk how I feel about that.

zaruyache
February 5th 2025


28647 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

nine main tracks and three interludes yeah, we'll see how that flows. I'm hoping there'll be some intro/outro dichotomies between some of them; a post-rock track designed to flow into one of the mostly metal ones so they'll still feel like longer songs. Hoping!

veninblazer
February 5th 2025


20047 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Interesting strategy, it'll finally give this band proper representation in my scrobbles at least lol

zaruyache
February 5th 2025


28647 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

maybe wouldn't be the first time. I remember that well before sunbather was announced they posted on facebook about writing a 17-minute song--which had me really excited--but it never showed up on the album. In retrospect I kind of assume now that the post-rocky second half of Please Remember might be the extra three minutes that got cut off Vertigo that they were originally talking about. Either that or the droning on Windows, maybe. Irresistible is obviously an outro, too.

zaruyache
February 5th 2025


28647 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

also if you look at the tracklist the first two proper tracks are Doberman and Magnolia, and that first "section" is bookended by the longest track. kinda reads to me like tracks 1-6 are a more traditional deafheaven suite, with Incidentals II-III both containing two following tracks each that might be of different styles or generally different orientations. That'd be neat.

zaruyache
February 6th 2025


28647 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

also also if you like blackgaze reminder Deadyellow put out a stellar album last year that was very sunbather reminiscent



http://deadyellows.bandcamp.com/album/what-was-left-of-them

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
February 6th 2025


116819 Comments

Album Rating: 4.7

Been meaning to jam that.

veninblazer
February 6th 2025


20047 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

thank you zaru i gotta get to that sometime

zaruyache
February 6th 2025


28647 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

it's as good as dofhooven !!! and they mimic a lot of deafhoofin's favorite chord progressions so it should light up all the same good parts of your brain.

KillJester
February 26th 2025


216 Comments


Absolutely obsessed with heathen.

DType
February 26th 2025


3277 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

The new album is gonna rule fer sher

Feather
February 27th 2025


11523 Comments


@Zaruyache that deadyellow suggestion was genius, straight up Deafheaven worship in a good way.



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