8.1
Avg Score
10
Opinions
#1,277
All Time
7
Tracks
“The most extreme thing about Deafheaven’s remarkable fourth album is how subdued it sounds. It suggests devastation without placing you at the center of it.”
“In 2011, Deafheaven founders George Clarke and Kerry McCoy used their debut album, Roads to Judah, to establish their new band’s sound: a mix of sparkling post-rock guitars, wistful shoegaze, blast beats and, most conspicuously, Clarke’s strangled, hissing vocals, obviously influenced by screamo and black metal bands. Then in 2013, the rest of the world caught on via the band’s second album Sunba”
““Art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos” said the Canadian-American novelist Saul Bellow, which has seemed akin to Deafheaven’s philosophy since they released their first album, 2013’s classic ‘Sunbather’. The five-piece’s output is akin to one coarse, existential howl – swathes of black metal fury are seared atop the searching sprawl associated with shoeg”
“The fact that the album kinda sounds like so many things, very few of them usually adjacent to the genre, sits at the crux of the album's aspiration. Ordinary Corrupt Human Love is a critical reminder to card-carrying loyalists and new inductees alike of their own agency; that it's potentially revelatory, not sacrilegious, for the spectrum of black metal to include things outside of its purview.”
“Ordinary Corrupt Human Love is not perfect, but Deafheaven remain captivating”
“Rife with post-rock cliches, Deafheaven's fourth album contains the band's least inspired genre-blending to date.”
