“Structurally speaking, "Brought to the Water" recalls Deafheaven's 2014 one-off "From the Kettle Onto the Coil": A Slayer-y head start builds the inertia necessary to transcend the thunderous verses and land on an inverse plain; that crushing chasm is disarmed and dismantled by way of warm, multilayered melodies. Here, Deafheaven make a slight departure from the trembling shoegaze passages that ha”
