02-28-2012, 09:00 PM
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#1865 (permalink)
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Mate, Spawn & Die
Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Rapping Community
Posts: 24,593
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Originally Posted by mankycaaant
I don't know guys, what is it that you particularly like about the album?
I feel as if I am missing something.
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Well, actually wrote a review of it in one of my member journals here. To quote a couple of my most relevant sentences about it:
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It's only natural that Neurosis would end up on this list since they've built a career out of making music that sounds like the end of the world. They're an amazing band who do what they do incredibly well and A Sun That Never Sets works as a single, unified piece of artistic expression to an amazing degree. This is a stunningly dynamic album full of peaks and valleys, build-up and release, subtlety and absolutely crushing intensity.
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Even in it's quietest moments A Sun That Never Sets is a very dark, unsettling and raw album. What's truly remarkable about it though is, despite feeling so raw and stripped-down, it's such a sonically rich album. Acoustic guitar, violin, piano, even bagpipes weave their way in and out of the sharp angles of these tracks while subdued production touches crackle and swirl around the edges.
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This album is such a strong, integrated piece that it's better appreciated as whole rather than as individual tracks, but if I had to pick highlights they would probably be "Falling Unknown" and "Stones from the Sky". These two—the longest tracks on the album—sort of function as the climaxes of its two movements so it's not surprising that they're the easiest to single out.
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