The magical monthly segment where I briefly touch down on a gauntlet of albums I didn't get a chance to review this past month. These are just my short, straightforward, passionate, biased opinions. These are the albums I touch down on: Killjoy Club - Reindeer Games Grouper - Ruins Wiley - Snakes & Ladders This Will Destroy You - Another Language Cannibal Corpse - A Skeletal Domain Gerard Way - Hesitant Alien Twin Peaks - Wild Onion Nachtmystium - The World We Left Behind At The Gates - At War With Reality The Contortionist - Language Jessie Ware - Tough Love
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This Will Destroy You- Tunnel Blanket
Reviews2 CommentsThis Will Destroy You's latest LP starts and finishes with flying colors, but it gets a little underwhelming in the middle for me. Hearing the band revisit old sounds, work with an odd drum mix, and working with similar structures throughout this album make me rethink my original love for some of the tracks here. In terms of structure, I'm really not wowed by this album. Where I am incredibly impressed is with the textures here! The sounds are fantastic, and some of the best I've heard this year. They're kind of a saving grace for this album. The guitars sound amazing, and the swells here are so subtle. Sure, this could be labeled as "post-rock" at some points, but This Will Destroy You are working with tools that just seem out of this world as several points on this album.
I'm kinda warm toward it, I suppose. I can't see myself returning to this anytime soon, though.
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