Well, the album clocks out under an hour. The drumming which was handled by Daniel Tracy can also be discussed. Starting off with what sounds like a pop-punk band covering a Catherine Wheel song while a spastic ADD drummer hits his kit randomly, it's safe to say the rest of this album is a pretend metal sham, and it is. RageW , December 11th, It has all the immediacy of black metal, with the varying albeit highly forced dynamics of post-rock, but the manner in which the two styles so antagonistically clash with each other makes Sunbather, regrettably, less than the sum of its parts. They are the one fault with this album, and the only reason I can't give it a perfect score. 
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Deafheaven knows how to create a beautiful, euphoric atmosphere with the use of clean, delayed guitar and piano. These riffs are borderline laughable, and they feel as if they've been written with little to no emotion or imagination.
Another glaring blemish in the album is that the individual genres that make the music here are simply not capably executed. Another thing that irks me is the average length of the main tracks not counting the instrumental ones is over ten minutes.
Lastly, the god damn cover looks like a Swedish House Mafia single cover.
It's basically a lot of ideas boiled down to a minimalistic approach to songwriting and it knocks it out of the park. But seriously, fuck these lyrics. BlackMetalJuly 23rd, Written based on this version: It will probably smell better too. Juvenile lyrics about unrequited love? I could definitely see someone picking up this LP, looking at the album art, and making a comment along the lines of: It's the longest one, but it never feels like it's being stretched out.
Especially considering the roots of the genre the band is apparently trying to reinvent, Sunbather offers a nicely blended production, with textural detail aplenty to keep the atmosphere afloat. desfheaven
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sunbatther So please if you enjoy the genres of music that have been mentioned in this, then please do yourself a favor and listen to this metal masterpiece. Not detrimental in and of themselves this is metal after all That is until I heard a song off this album called deafbeaven House' where I found out how blackgaze sounds. Wait, did I just say main songs? The only thing about this album that saves it from being a complete loss is the drumming. A bitter man once told me that this album was just a repackaging of Orchid's "Gatefold" - at two and a half times the length, this album takes that title at face value.
The instruments as mentioned are fairly well produced, and in such a way that guitars are generally using a wall of sound type of approach, tremolo picking riffs that harmonize to outline chords which is a pretty standard approach. While there are some shadowy moments, most of the record ranges from solemn and inspired to outright ecstatic.
From the deagheaven of the album, it blasts the listener with the use of blast beats and shrieking vocals with opener 'Dream House. Sure, weeping love stories have never been much of a stranger even to metal at times, but the endless hopeless pining was just as annoying when Warning did it years ago, and it's even worse here. The deafheavem result is whine rock with nothing to offer, but since it's in a more "extreme" form, you can lie to people and tell them that this is a "nu" kind of black metal and they would buy it, even if it is cut from the same mold of things they supposedly hate.
I like that about it, Sunbather is a very passive album. The first album of the Fontt Deafheaven struck me deeafheaven an easier to digest version of their New York counterparts in Krallice and Liturgy. The interludes are moody and centered around a theme of confused desperation. Most of all, Sunbather shnbather a case where the hype both good and bad has left me disappointed. This certainly is not a big deal to me, and you really can't understand much of the lyrics anyway with the vocal style and volume, but they are somewhat cheesy.
I said before that the vocals are bearable. Any other type of juvenile crap is out of the question.
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The vocals are very distant and brash, the guitars are clear yet kinda dirty, it's basically everything you'd expect from a production standpoint, but therein lies what I like about the record. I just have to pause the album at that point and let it sink in. You know boys, the reason Venom scared so many people back in the day is because you could actually hear Cronos sing "tearing the flesh of the weak, tender child," "I drink the vomit of the priest" and "teacher caught me masturbating underneath the desk.
Now, Deafheaven are clearly a Midwestern US screamo band masquerading as a metal band, but that's not the real reason why Sunbather doesn't even have the punch to build itself up so it can fall apart on its own; this is an album in which nothing ever happens. The ideas are intriguing, but the execution is sloppy.
That was the attitude.
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