Moonlover

This is sure was a polarizing album in the metal community when it came out. The soundscape on here is all over the place with the first track of the album 'The Sleeping Fields', starts of sounding sombre and nocturnal. But when it hit the second track on here it started to sound as if the band was inspired by deafheaven breakthrough album 'Sunbather' with its up-lifting and euphoric atmosphere that felt stagnant the whole way through 9 minute track until the beautiful piano keyboard hits. ... read more

Everyone would have loved if this would have been album of the month because of the boobies on the cover, right? Anyways, if you like hard stuff, and if you like shoegaze metal, just, listen to it okay?
Best Tracks : Golden Number, Happyhouse
Worst Tracks : Any song under 5 minutes long

Amazing album cover imo
This album has some of the best lyricism and songwriting I've ever heard. This record does a great job at setting an atmosphere, and saying so much while not saying anything at all. Golden Number is such a good song, and I think while the album has really high points like that, it at times can feel repetitive and uninteresting. I wasn't a huge fan of Beneath the Shade Tree, and it felt like it just broke up my listening experience going through it. Overall, ... read more

Such a diverse and nuanced soundscape builds a thick atmosphere, switching between ethereal and dark bleak moments, this record does such an interesting iteration of blackgaze that sadly suffers from consistency where there's moments here that makes my mind drift to the point I forget I was listening to it and others that are genuinely some of the most amazing blackgaze/atmoblack you'll hear.