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New Dawn

Morne

2013

New Dawn

Release Date:  2013

By Pitchfork

Reviewed May 28, 2013

It might seem misleading to call “New Dawn,” the massive centerpiece of the forthcoming third album from Boston band Morne, beautiful. This is, after all, an 11-minute slog through arching and knotting doom, with riffs that hang cold and still like the blade of a murderous scythe and bottom-of-the-core vocals that suggest the rattle of a broken subwoofer. But this darkness is lined forever with flickering light; sometimes it's courtesy of an extra guitar that pretends it wants to jangle, and sometimes it's in the way the deadly stagger escalates into an almost post-rock surge. Morne’s extended span thrives on implied tension, an unspoken battle between two elements that slowly acquiesces to a curtain of silence. Profound Lore releases Shadows on July 25.

8:00 PM · May 28, 2013