Its melancholic riffs, odd and ambient instrumentals, and melodic chorus guitar and piano is more than enough to have me come back to that album despite its bad production. Since Reviewing "Sunbather," the album went on to become one of my favorite metal albums of the 2010s. I can certainly say this isn't exactly a Sunbather 2 which is a huge relief but I will say that Sunbather still comes out on top by a slight margin. Others were worried it would be Sunbather 2. "Oh here we go again." Nonetheless these sections are still wonderful to listen and the seamless flow between harsh sections to the more ethereal is accomplished tastefully through the use of hooks and such.Īlot of people were wondering what the follow up to Sunbather would be like. It works most of the time but eventually as the album goes on I found that it got slightly tiring just because it felt so expected.
One thing to add is that it feels like every song has to follow a certain build up sequence to some shoegazey break. Each Deafheaven album the style seems to change and now it is a slightly lower pitched scream but it is still grating and the vocals have always been my least favourite part of the band. You will also notice that the vocals sound different yet again.
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Having full time drummer Daniel Tracy has really helped improve Deafheaven's sound and his drumming once again is very good on this album. Although this album proves that they are now far and beyond what they did on that album and its a good thing I think. The standard blast beat carnage sounds similar to what it did on their first full length Roads to Judah.
But the guitar playing seems to be more metal like with some chugging sections which were surprising and almost tech/prog like at some points. They do not sound nearly as bright even in the shoegazey sections which yes are still there in pretty much every song in one for or another. The first thing that I noticed was the overall tone of the guitars sounded darker and heavier compared to Sunbather. It seems for the most part that everyone either loved or hated that album. Here it is, the follow up to the divisive album Sunbather.
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