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"An exiled sound washed in with the tide. Their voices are free. Free from
the sun's stare, free from the noise of lost souls" ('The Tide')
Like a monster from times unknown, its name only whispered in nightmares,
Neurosis has been slithering through the underground music scene. Related
beasts like Tool or Godspeed You Black Emperor! gave only glimpses of what
was about to come. Still nothing could prepare us for 'A Sun That Never
Sets', an album so heavy, so slow that it must have been there since the Big
Bang. It just took this long to arrive.
Doom metal? Yes and no. Neurosis' music has characteristics of doom, but also
an epic greatness and feeling for composition more similiar to the
aformentionded Tool and GYBE! Just take the use of contrasts between the
heavy and almost silent parts and the absence of solos. In tracks like 'The
Tide', 'Falling Unknown' and 'Stones From The Sky', Neurosis reaches dizzying
heights. No small achievement for something this heavy.
'A Sun That Never Set' was produced by Steve Albini, so the drums sound awful
and the guitars great. And it has to be said that Albini's, normally
annoying, trademark dull drum sound fits surprisingly well with Neurosis'
music.
Neurosis offers it listeners no escape: all tracks are slow and dark and 'A
Sun That Never Sets' slowly sucks you into moods where, ironically, the sun
never shines. The emotionally unstable (to which music writers belong by
definition) might better try listening to a few tracks at a time instead of
to the whole album.
"Is your heart still beating? Can you feel this at all? This landslide will
bury us all." ('Falling Unknown')
http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/neurosis/a-sun-that-never-sets/1121/
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