deafheaven "Sunbather"
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Back when “The Illusion of Safety” came out, I was at a show and couldn’t help but overhear two people talking about how they didn’t like it as much as the previous Thrice album. If they knew this was the world that they were in store for, perhaps they would have appreciated that album as much as I still do to this day.
These songs are hardcore bordering on post rock or maybe the other way around. They can go on for a while and have musical parts without words for a while, but long gone are the days of bands like Backstabbers, Inc. This is like a long, drawn out version of a band like Converge and for that it feels like it is fighting itself. If two different attributes are present in the same song, none the less the entire album, the band tends to sound like it is fighting itself or at least making the listener feel like they want to fight themselves.
There is a delicate line that can be drawn between this melodic post rock sound and this screaming hardcore sound. A band such as Thursday perfected it in many ways on the album “Full Collapse”. Converge can bring one half of it out while, well, I’m not really going to name how many post rock bands this could sound like right now, but let’s go with Athletics.
The two combined do not flow like hot and cold water becoming warm and tolerable, but rather in the delivery of deafheaven they are most likely going to be too heavy for post rock fans and not heavy enough for hardcore fans. I don’t really consider myself to be a fan of any specific genre, but when it comes to this album I suppose I am more of a hardcore fan because I just keep waiting for it to kick in and get really heavy like Nora or Ed Gein. But as Daredevil himself once said, in some ways… I’m still waiting.
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