Deafheaven - Infinite Granite (August 20, 2021) Album • Page 17

My favorite album of theirs since Sunbather. I dig this turn for them a lot.

 

Mombasa ruined me. Holy shit.

 

I was on the fence for their show in March. Not anymore. Bought.

 

WHOAAAAAAA SHELLSTAR.

Reading these comments if this record gets BETTER as it goes on..... ummmm I'm not sure if I'm ready for that.

And I never really even cared much for this band before hearing "Great Mass Of Color" the other month.

 

i don't understand why i keep forgetting how good great mass of color is, haha. every time i listen to the album that song comes on and i'm floored.

 

good twinkly guitar tones here. also like the synth stuff.

 

Just been and picked this up - Loving it so far on first listen

I remember trying 'Sunbather' a while ago and just thinking 'No'

How are long time fans of the band reacting to this? They've become a different band surely?

 

Exactly! My ears truly rejected Sunbather EVERY time I tried to listen to it. Nothing on that record vocally resembles anything close to melody.

I'm only 3 tracks into this one - but dude can actually sing, and I even hear some hooks!

 

im not sure id call this shoegaze more than id call it post punk and or post rock. its definitely not conventional shoegaze at all outside of the textural distorted guitars in the back ground of some of the crescendos.

 

As someone who considers Sunbather their favorite album of the 2010s I don’t think this is the radical departure people are making it out to be. Obviously the vocals are the biggest change but musically I can still hear the same dna.

 

Fair enough - I'll have to revisit 'Sunbather' but I already know that the vocals are going to be a big sticking point for me

I remember enjoying the music but thinking "Why is this bloke just shrieking over it?"

 

this album reminds me more of OCHL than Sunbather. all are great and I agree that instrumentally this isn't that huge of a departure but there's no denying it's quite different though just on account of the vocals.

 

This was pretty good. Need more listens with it and not while working on stuff because while not focusing on it it all kind of blurred together

not a fan of their earlier work (just not a fan of that genre / style of screaming) so this was really my first time listening to them since I heard it was drastically different.

 

I think George’s metal vocals improve over time. His performance on Black Brick is miles ahead of Sunbather.

 

i didn’t love shellstar and was gonna post some uh oh shit but then the release around 3:30 hit

 

it reminds me of a lot of bands from the ‘90s that occupied the sliver between shoegaze and alt rock. the church, catherine wheel, hum, failure, siamese dream in some of the guitar tones

it also still manages to sound 1000 percent like deafheaven

 

I'm all for that - Definitely get a sense they've listened to 'Ferment'

 

real swervedriver vibes

 

in blur and great mass of color rip

 

Love too be right

 

i have seen that take a lot and kind of disagree entirely haha

 

the pretty and lush moments of the last few, like the end of honeycomb or whatever, don’t really sound anything like the ambient type stuff in this. those moments were like slightly heavier oasis. this stuff here is straight up brian eno stuff at times, like neptune raining diamonds.

 

I'm the stereotypical "not really into metal but likes Deafheaven" kind of fan and wow, this is my shit.

 

i don’t mean it in a negative way. just feels more like a reinvention than a progression. and i like it. just took some adjusting. this is closer to interpol type stuff than anything from their prior records imo.

 

I said more “turn on the bright lights” like ten pages ago and conniptions were had