ConeyAllen

Antigone II made me cry

In some ways, better than Life Metal. The fact that these are just practice sessions make it even more impressive. The (relatively) shorter track times make it a more digestible than Life Metal and even though they are improvisational, the drones seem a bit more focused and discernible; Frost (C) has it's chilling winds, Ampliphædes has what sound like bass melodies, etc. In the end, it's Sunn O))) doing what they do best: producing monolithic, immersive slabs of drone. The tones here ... read more

Probably the best thing they've done since wonderful rainbow or hypermagic mountain

Love the production, unfortunately Tyler doesn't really do anything memorable with it. Vocals are inaudible at many points since they are buried in the mix, lyrics are like something I'd find over a badly edited photo posted on tumblr, and the more the album goes on, the more and more the tracks seem to just wash together. In short, it's mostly flash and little substance; Just lush, pretty sounds to get an emotional reaction from someone and pretend like there is some sort of depth with the ... read more