Scenes from Hell

Another masterpiece in Sigh’s discography. The title pretty perfectly emulates what this album sounds like, the only small issue I have is that the guitars are a little low in the mix but it’s nothing too major.

This album already immensely impressed me when I first heard it years ago, yet it still grew massively on me with every return since.

Technical virtuosity, emotional potency, brilliant songwriting, infectious catchiness, or even an ingeniously understated quietude- at least one of these or some analogous traits has to shine through consistently for me to declare an album an 11/10. This has, in recent experience, appeared to form a trend: evaluating an album's eligibility for 11/10 status ... read more