When the most melodic post-rock ambience and experimental shoegaze clash with thundering guitars and smashing drums, you get something that shakes you to the very core. You get something that fits in right up there with bands like Deafheaven and Nothing. You get something that ingrains itself in your mind and wraps its hand around the very fibers that make you what you are. You get Black Clouds. Everything Is Not Going To Be OK set the stage and raised the curtains. Dreamcation now takes this spotlight and in doing so, it leaves you further mesmerized.
This album's as guitar-centric, solo-draped and as intricate as you'd expect it to be. And then some. Coming onto the label of former Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly proved to be a very clever move because the production value and overall heft of this record feels higher quality and more theatrical. "Don't Look For Me" signals this in the onset with the cryptic, sinister and ominous gaze that these Washington, D.C. instrumentalists love to paint. What works even better this go around is that they glitter the album with more black metal tidbits. Everything though, comes together like a thing of beauty and flows so creatively and more importantly, organically...[more]
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