Basically if you took the black metal chords and post-rock of deafheaven and used just those two songwriting modes to fill out +10 minute tracks, for over an hour. The production values are great, the guitars are clean and powerful, but because the band are instrumental and don't actually put a lot of influence on leadwork (it's pretty buried in the mix whenever there is one), everything sort of blends together. No individual sections, melodies, or riffs stand out, none of the music ever really crescendos... it sort of all just rumbles along ad nauseam. They have the potential to be cool, but their songwriting style is so constricted that their shtick just gets really old really fast. You listen to one of these ten-minute pieces and think "Huh that was OK", start up the next track and get the exact same thing, and promptly turn it off.
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