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they made a song that's too long to fit on a cd (full performance of the beggar was 89 minutes long)
and the original song is about 10 minutes long. rope formed out of this less than a minute intro for the beggar studio version into a 30 minutes long behemoth. it's insanely beautiful how they can expand on sounds like that. it happened before, mainly on "we rose..."
now the actual performance of the beggar completely overshadows the studio version for me. here michael is ... read more

yeah sure mikey, slapping a 40 minutes long sound collage in the middle of an ethereal folk album is a great idea
i think doing it like on "my father will guide me up a rope to the sky" where the sound collage was a bonus disc and not a part of the actual release would make this album a 10/10. also it feels extremely artificial just to make the album 2 hours long.
on this album you can find the most beautiful moments in their entire discography. it very much feels like their final ... read more

more demos. why am i even writing reviews for those?

wow, whose terrible idea it was to put my phantom limb as the closer instead of what is this?
this is the band's first studio album after their "breakup" in 2017 after the glowing man tour. it's way more minimal and subdued compared to their efforts right after reunion. there's a lot of interesting ideas here, with these atmospheric - ethereal tracks like the title track or what is this. even though they tried to escape the pattern of doing long tracks, i think this is ... read more