The Long Goodbye

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Band Name An Autumn For Crippled Children
Album Name The Long Goodbye
Type Album
Data de aparición 23 Febrero 2015
Estilo MusicalDoom Black
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Tracklist

1. The Long Goodbye 04:58
2. Converging Towards the Light 04:12
3. A New Form of Stillnes 04:03
4. Only Skin 05:01
5. When Night Leaves Again 04:10
6. She's Drawning Mountains 04:40
7. Endless Skies 05:44
8. Gleam 03:54
9. The Sleep of Rust 04:22
Total playing time 41:04

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An Autumn For Crippled Children



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Comentario @ ObnoxiousChimp

30 Mayo 2015

Mild

As much as it pains me to say this, An Autumn For Crippled Children have been redundant following the release of Only the Ocean Knows. Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love was a competent if largely uninteresting release from a band that is capable of more. The Long Goodbye is the same story, competent if unexciting from a band that has gotten far too comfortable for their own good.

It seems the softening out of this band happened precisely one second after Lost as the band decided they’ll never release anything as brilliant or anguished again. Over time the band has drifted further and further away from the depressive underground into the modern realms of post black metal shoegazing. Whilst I’m not adverse to changes in a band's sound, An Autumn For Crippled Children thrived on the melding of depressive elements with post rock/shoegaze elements. It was unique and refreshing in a post black metal scene where every band is determined to sound the lightest and most dreamlike imaginable.

The Long Goodbye starts off on a good note. The opening track is a classic in the making, the band offering up some furious depressive black metal with soaring post rock melodies. It’s a pretty effective mixture and one the band is able to work wonders with. Yet even though the introduction is one of the best I’ve heard (and I’ve heard a fair few in my time) the band suddenly drops an instrumental post rock break that halts the momentum of an otherwise banging track.

Each subsequent song follows the same formula, furious depressive black metal moments interlaced with Yndi Halda styled post rock. It’s a pretty bizarre combination really, as the metal and non-metal elements are so at odds with one another. It’s almost like Enjoy Eternal Bliss decided it wasn’t good enough and decided to add tremolo picked lines and shrieked vocals. Yeah it’s pretty odd even if their heart is still in it. But this style of post rock simply does NOT work with black metal.

This marriage of ideals wouldn’t be as big of a deal if the post rock didn’t seep into the black metal elements, thus softening it out. Ghost Bath are able to juggle both genres effectively, yet as more or less a pure depressive black metal act, you NEED to be dark and aggressive. Post rock elements are all well and good if they complement the music and don’t create any weird genre mashups.

One element The Long Goodbye had to give up is unfortunatel the black metal elements. This is some of the lightest, least aggressive black metal I’ve heard in a long time, almost matching Annorkoth in terms of brightness. I’ve always had a bit of a problem with post black metal, even since day one. Whilst the first Amesouers release was a shining example of how to do this style right, there’s been so many other releases that choose to exercise all the metal elements from their style and focus solely on the dream pop/post rock/shoegaze side of things that it almost makes a mockery of what Everything black metal typically embodies. Sleeping Peonies is perhaps the worst offender, offering up what essentially amounts to a Slowdive clone with some half assed attempts at screaming.

I wouldn’t say The Long Goodbye is objectively better or worse than Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love. The band is content to write the same song over and over again which is a bit of a problem. Sure the music they’ve offered to us this year can be superbly beautiful (in a post rock way, not in a remotely black metal sort of way) but it just lacks the bite that made Lost such a special release. Decent but lacking, you’re best off with the band’s first three releases.

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