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relistening to this for the first thing in a while. It really does not sound like much of anything else in my collection. It does not particularly sound like something I would want in my collection. And yet. This is the universe of the sea. There is no disputing it. And how can you not be drawn to the sea in its seemingly infinite expanse?

I was in a bad mood when I first put this on and was a little underwhelmed but after a few more spins I think that was on me. _God of Everything Else_ is fantastic and everything else on the album is, at bare minimum, good

I'll admit I had kind of forgotten about this band until this album came up on shuffle but was hit like a punch in the gut by the singer, Kristine Leschper's, voice. The emotional weight her voice carries is just unreal—so much longing, so much heart break, so close to breaking. Unambiguously, it is the driving force of this album but the orchestration around it suits it perfectly. The strings, the gentle snare, the reverb-y guitars punctuate as needed and then fade back. Great album

underrated album, underrated band. relistening to this because it has a great arrangement of Gently Johnny on it and I just rewatched The Wicker Man

Been listening to this pretty heavily since it came out because I kept meaning to review it and also because it's good! I think maybe not quite hitting the highs of God's Pee but also who know

The front half of this album caught me off guard as it starts a lot lighter than the title might suggest. The end of RAINDROPS CAST IN LEAD feels almost rowdy. The interlude of BROKEN SPIRES AT DEAD KAPITAL and then fuck you ominous drum of PALE SPECTATOR TAKES PHOTOGRAPHS is closer to what I expected (even if the drums feel slightly outside their normal sound to me).

I think it's also to say that that dirge is easily the strongest track on… More