Deafheaven

I feel like I'm hearing a lot of Radiohead in this. That thing at 2:13 in Canary Yellow.

starts off sound a lot like the end of "Layla"

i really really like this album but i rarely listen to it as an album—i keep getting stuck on particular songs and just listen to them over and over. first canary yellow, then honeycomb, now worthless animal

i was really surprised and impressed with their live show as well. way over-the-top and entertaining without taking themselves too seriously

Yeah these guys were great when I saw them recently. Great fun show.

I did an interview in person when the band played Philly last month. I found George to be open and engaging, not guarded at all, which considering how polarizing the band is, I kind of expected. He was especially proud of the touring package of hand-picked support. The show was phenomenal.

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/deafheaven-interview/

i appreciated how the singer would rock the fuck out no matter how quiet or slow the song was at that particular section

this is their best album but the drummer constantly playing the same fill is grating

new album out in august. first single is elusively kicking around, apparently a bit of a departure

wish they'd depart completely tbh

i'm really sorry that you are being forced to listen to them against your will imago, that sucks

I must admit I still think about the phrase "pompous drums" every time I listen to them

lol sorry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK300gUp04c

they've ditched the pompous drums!

they're just a normal shoegaze band now i guess and better for it

Nice tune

They’ve turned into Alcest and I, for one, couldn’t be happier

ok this song rules, the great justin meldal-johnson on the boards as well apparently

that's always a great sign

Yeah, this is really good.

Kerry McCoy is a badass

ah yes this sounds great

I like this song because it doesn't trade any of dfvhn's complexity or experimenting for the sake of a new sound. It's unmistakably Deafheaven, even from the early chords. I'm really interested to see where this goes.

This new one is great. Glad someone championed these guys on ilm so many years ago.

they've ditched the pompous drums!

the drums were literally the best part about this band, by a country mile!

that said, this is a good tune. stoked for people to write "metal is growing, and growth sometimes means not playing metal any more, but it's gatekeeping if they don't headline Roadburn"

Great song. It feels very carefully pieced together.

Idk if changing the framework from metal to shoegaze is growth? What is the end point here? Elevator music?

It's different and there's nothing wrong with that, but I wouldn't call it growth when they're shedding some of the qualities that made them distinct in the first place, like the pompous drums.

also it implies metal is juvenile, something you grow out of

Has anyone actually described this in terms of growth or are we still getting mad at an imagined future review?

Not to my knowledge. Sorry. I didn't intend to preach to the choir, but it seems exactly what I did.

the less it sounds like deafheaven the more growth there's been imo

https://open.spotify.com/track/77CbWXOoPNmMkr2UfLzVss?si=C7nrnXFOQwCfEvD6ZkY0UA&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1

New single, "The Gnashing."

I'm in love with the new direction they're going in.

new single is good, i like the drumming

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-deafheaven-made-their-least-metal-album-yet/

in this interview they say it's not a metal album at all, so these tracks aren't outliers or anything, the whole album's going to be straight up shoegaze it seems

What is the end point here? Elevator music?

they do say they think they could make an ambient album someday lol

every black metal band eventually turns to ambient

Silence is the darkest sound.

It's kind of funny when they bring up Kid A in that interview, since Radiohead tried to use those influences to make something different from everyone else, while these guys are trying to erase their own sound to sound like every shoegazing band that ever existed.

not sure i hear that happening

Yeah, another good song.

The start of the first single sounds like it could be on Everything Must Go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXcxYC4Q644

another good one

album rules. rules rules rules rules rules

occupies the sliver between rock and shoegaze like catherine wheel, hum, parts of siamese dream, without sounding exactly like any of them. almost like a harder version of the slowdive s/t. last two tracks are very powerful

meant to mention failure, "the gnashing" is pretty failure

ha, beat me by an hour. came here to post this.

very, very, very good. one of our best bands.

their drummer is like jimmy chamberlain-level good on this album

they really nailed what they were going for here, it totally delivers

there is no bottom to this record, i just keep swimming and there's no end

for all the talk about if they're losing what made them distinct, they definitely aren't here. it's not like they're just regurgitating shoegaze tropes and have totally lost their identity or anything, it's very distinctively them still, just a different take on their sound. i get why that would be disappointing to some who really loved what they were doing before though

also hearing '90s church albums in this

just pretty much everything i want a rock record to do