| | | Ratings (76) |
Give your Rating |
| 4.0 excellent | Alabaster Jones | August 5th 17 |
If the old saying is to be believed and "music is reflection of self", then the dudes that made White Halo must be nothing but volatile lightning balls of frustration, depression, pain, and inner turmoil. Because while a reductionist point of view would see this record as Envy with a splash of Deafheaven, Heaven In Her Arms make sure that this music amounts to more than that. That's apparent even from the opening riff cascades of "Abyss Of The Moonbow"; the oftentimes empathetically painful experience of this tear-filled combination of screamo, post-rock, and blackgaze with a dash of powerful vocals is able to affect the listener in a way that merely summing the album up to be a marriage of two band influences just isn't enough. Some of this stuff sounds like funeral songs fed through a screamo laminator and it's downright beautiful, emotionally potent music. Basically, you can call White Halo Envy and Deafheaven's child, but you've got to concede this child is more than simply an amalgam of his parents. It's got a consciousness of its own and it's damn wonderful.
2 Bumps | Bump |
| 3.5 great | Gene Gol-Jonsson CONTRIBUTOR | March 27th 24 |
On most fronts a plain old blackgaze very in tune with the contemporaneous trends, but I cannot deny the amount of truly beautiful moments on it.
Bump |
| 4.0 excellent | Bedex | May 9th 19 |
This is good, but all over the place. Added to the base of proggier less screamo heavy Abyssal-era Envy we find a bunch of somewhat random influences from black metal to wankery bedroom shreddy 'djent'. While this may sound interesting these influences are baked in quite poorly, resulting in the record feeling erratic rather than a cohesive multi-faceted piece of music. It still has beautiful sections and is well worth a spin, but it is a shame those sections are drowned by the lack of artistic direction. 3.8
Bump |
| 3.5 great | emmny | April 23rd 17 |
challenging as usual, not so much in a good way. ironically, the most straightforward envy-style track (last one) is the best. the rest are...odd but listenable
Bump |
| 4.0 excellent | FunJan | August 9th 23 |
| 5.0 classic | Uzumaki | October 6th 22 |
| 4.5 superb | lurxy | June 23rd 22 |
| 4.5 superb | tekth | November 8th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | kevbogz | October 31st 20 |
| 3.0 good | 2ool | February 27th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Wolfe | September 18th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | vakuola | January 4th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | xAvidus | July 27th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Warpt | May 6th 18 |
| 3.5 great | TBH717 | April 15th 18 |
| 5.0 classic | toka | January 4th 18 |
| 3.0 good | Yep321 | November 14th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Trebor. EMERITUS | September 12th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Swarm | June 25th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | JLR2DEG | June 19th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ulshad | May 31st 17 |
| 5.0 classic | hsb | May 7th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Greem | April 23rd 17 |
| |
Give Your Opinion on White Halo
|
