I have listened to this in full in "one sitting" (Had a long day of work and various things and never stopped this album while I did everything) and am now gathering my thoughts on it. Once I do a full review I will write. Strange that the tracklist here does not include the 32nd track though
I find that post-rock and post-rock adjacent genres are often the best at communicating so much with so little. The compositions are often charmingly simple, repeating the same melody ad-nauseam or simply letting sounds ring out to their full duration rather than keeping a steady progression. And yet, albums like Flood, despite being 95% instrumental, and the non-instrumental parts being in a language I can't understand, manage to paint the most vivid and grizzly scenes imaginable.
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