Souvenirs

This record ladies and gentlemen is why The Gathering should be acclaimed as one of the most profound innovators of modern music. For comparison, recall Thrice and their transition from hardcore and punk to experimental post-hardcore with Vheissu and The Alchemy Indexes. Souvenirs is a gothic masterpiece, as serene and gorgeous as it is haunting and ominous. It doubles down on the softer, atmosphere laden post-rock sensibilities of How To Measure A Planet and carves an identity, no, a world all its own. Every song is a moment to be lost in, to be thrilled by, and to be haunted by.