Deafheaven

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

This is very good, yes. Love the drumming. I've never been a huge fan but I feel this is very much playing to strengths.

Unsurprisingly I love this, very much getting "the American Alcest" vibes

Went for a long walk today and listened to this. I loved Roads to Judah and Sunbather but sort of fell away from there but gave this a go and yeah, really good. I got a bit of Red House Painters in places, Lullaby for the Working Class and as Brad said, lots of Slowdive. Standouts: Neptune Raining Diamonds into Lament for Wasps and Mombasa, which is colossal.

One thing's for sure - the people who complained "they're not black metal" will feel vindicated.

I love this so much. A fitting new direction after 10 years.

This is pretty easily my favorite Deafheaven album that I've heard.

Yeah, mine too.

Sargent House is having quite a good month.

This sounds like Alcest, but not as good. Still like it though

it's pretty easily my favourite but that's because they've double down on the parts of their sound that i liked & moved away from the parts that were less my thing (the screaming, mostly)

this is so much better than their false black metal ... everybody OTM, excellent album

dig the album but i love when they go black metal. thankfully the new WITTR album was also released today so i get my fill

Unsurprisingly I love this, very much getting "the American Alcest" vibes

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my take was going to be 'the new lantlos is better' but hm maybe ... it isn't

I loooove "Lament for Wasps". The layering in the second half, so good.

looking around online this album seems to have really alienated a lot of previous fans. shame, they're missing out

p4k has turned on them just as they've become even more p4k-like.

???? this is one of the best rock albums i’ve ever heard jfc

i can understand fans being disappointed it's a change in sound from the previous distinctive thing they were doing but i feel like if you were super into that sound you should likely also be super into this heavier-end-of-shoegaze sound anyway so it just seems like they're not really engaging with it on its terms and are just frustrated it's different idk

album keeps reminding me of the end of paramore's "future", guess that's jmj's touch

this is pretty boring to my ears. bog standard shoe gaze which at this point, please, do something interesting.

not much shoegaze has drums this great. it's not the most original thing in the world, sure, but they've carved out a very enjoyable little niche here as brad described earlier & the production is immaculate. if this was some new band i'd be shocked that a new shoegaze band could make something this good.

yeah the drums and songcraft make this stand out so much to me. i’ve heard bog standard shoegaze, cf. pity sex, this is a billion times more realized

and the p r o d u c t i o n

given that "why would music need to be heavier than 'Black Metallic'?" was the question that kept me away from metal for far too long, feels like I should hear this

the p4k review is disappointing... I don't understand how these guys got to be a black metal touchstone in the first place, but it's sad to downgrade their best-sounding album because they've outgrown some unconvincing gestures ... especially sad because the last track, "Mombasa," uses their black metal mode very well

Angry Metal Guy #314208 got into metal via Deafheaven, is now angry they've changed:

https://www.angrymetalguy.com/deafheaven-infinite-granite-review/

the p4k review even admits that it would be an excellent debut album from a different band so it just comes across as disappointed they've changed

ppl who are disappointed in this record bc there are only a few black metal screams are all posers

all of them

otm

I’m listening to the catalogue to see if anything’s budged, and overall my feeling is that they get a little better on every album. The first two albums don't really work for me; there's a lot of drift and build-up, but the emotional exploration never feels that interesting to me. There's a tightness and shadowiness to New Bermuda that suggests something more complex. OCHL is playful, restless, and full of cool ideas. Infinite Granite is just a very well-executed turn, and conveys a lot of what I liked in previous albums in more concise form.

The bass player is secret MVP on this record. Rhythm section is key to making the songs move.

p4k will give it a 9.0 in ten years on the reissue