Album Rating: 4.0

I'm rating this based on disc one. He's already done the boring, hick folk album before and it was half great, half boring. I like when he seamlessly mixes the two styles and doesn't separate them.

Album Rating: 4.0

"Hick folk"

Is all American folk automatically hick folk?

hicks don't live anywhere else.

Album Rating: 4.0

lmao

Album Rating: 4.0

AOTY.

Album Rating: 3.0

Stoked to listen

Album Rating: 4.0

Never really listened to Panopticon but this album sounds like it's going to be great. I love ambitious musicians and those who are happy to push boundaries, and this double-CD is surely ambitious. Listened to half of the folky side and was pleasantly impressed. If only I could rate between 4 and 4.5...

Wonder how this guy is IRL. It's interesting how people view his music as 'hick' music and act like he lives in the middle of nowhere in the mountains when, apparently, he's from Louisville, KY. A metropolitan, urban city area.

Do you mean you wonder if he's like Xasthur or the Leviathan guy?

Album Rating: 4.5

Ok part 2 is pretty fucking good, damn

Album Rating: 4.0

holy shit I fucking love part 2. I hardly dabble in bluegrass at all, but this has a nice rustic folk feel to it and I am super down with it. I think I like it better than part 1. Very versatile musician.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

"Do you mean you wonder if he's like Xasthur or the Leviathan guy?"



Wrest and Malefic both have certifiable mental illness... I think Austin just prefers his privacy.

i agree with the poster who said Autumn Eternal has more emotion. That album just has that magic that other albums don't to me. I think it's a classic that i can listen to every time of year, though it is just perfect for a cold hike or drive.

This album is pretty good upon initial listens and i love the word "disintegration" that the reviewer used to describe CD 2. I think Austin using a more riff-based approach on some of these songs as opposed to the tremz and such is a detriment to his style. I know one (some?) of these tracks are meant to be an homage to other artists though so i understand.

some of this reminds me of the mantle

v good

Album Rating: 3.0

oh shit ive only been listening to disc one, I didn't even realize this had two sides lmao

Album Rating: 4.0

Giving this my first listen now.



The project has really stuck with me since I was first introduced to Lunn's work with Collapse.



I am amused with his retro BM album cover homage.



grim

Album Rating: 4.0

"some of this reminds me of the mantle"



agreed but also Pale Folklore

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Without getting mired in the debates of whether these LPs should've been released

separately - "The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness" feels like the record

Austin Lunn has intended to craft for many years.



The countless years of dedication, learning every damn instrument, prolific work ethic

(splits, compilations, remasters, LPs), carefully crafting and structuring his wide body

of work, and all the labour of love that Austin has given us -- time and time again -- I

feel that we owe every truly great artist their space and time to breathe, to

experiment, and to lay out precisely what is in their heart. Fuck the ratings, the

comparative quibbling, and the expectations.



Austin has earned this, and we owe him an open ear and heart. - 4.2/5

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Yes, I'm being pretentious and copypasta'ing my sound off here, cause I'm late to the discussion, and I don't want the buzz to fade on this wonderful release. Austin Lunn is a treasure.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Revisiting Autumn Eternal, and I might honestly 5 it. Need to revisit Roads once more as well.