Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit

[IntoPhagist]

The best song is Ghosts of Midwinter Fires.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

eh, after reading these comments, I'll skip this record.

 

[LuminousAether]

Shouldn't do that. The album is seriously fucking amazing. Every listen it just gets better and better.

 

[Hubster]

I wouldn't skip the album, it's worth investigating, but ^ fanboi here needs his hard-on to die down a bit.

 

[LuminousAether]

That keyboard part near the end of the Black Lake song makes me fucking nut all over myself every time.

 

[Mort Divine]

To Drown is easily the best song on the album.

 

[LuminousAether]

I can't pick a best song. To Drown kinda reminds me of Godspeed.

 

[Ryuuzaki]

I'm probably the only one here who likes "Into The Painted Grey" the most.

 

[Xorv]

a little distraught SO FAR, because I was not expecting this...

To be the better release of 2010 (even though les discrets' 2010 album is just as good, but I've known alcest long before they released escallies de lune)

This is not an "upbeat" album though. @gundam

^ disregard, marrow of the spirit is already on par with les discrets for album of the year

 

[LuminousAether]

Love Les Discrets but Alcest's newest is better as is Lantlos.

 

[IntoPhagist]

After the first 2 songs on that Alcest album I had enough...Track number 3 is excruciating to listen to.

 

[beast from the east]

Love Les Discrets but Alcest's newest is better as is Lantlos.

Agreed on Lantlos - an amazingly great album.

 

[LuminousAether]

After the first 2 songs on that Alcest album I had enough...Track number 3 is excruciating to listen to.

Track #3 is the best on the album and one of the top 5 songs of the year so far.

 

[brooks55]

Profound Lore just put it up for order today.

 

[King Dedede]

I listened to some of the songs (or parts of the songs) on youtube a few times. I wasn't impressed at all. Songs just sound tired and boring. The production sounds terrible, although that may be just the youtube sound quality.

To be fair, I'll probably still buy this and attempt to listen all the way through a few times.

Hubster is the smartest person on this thread.

 

[celestialelixir]

I tried to listen to this album but I think I fell asleep before the second track so I don't remember any of it. Anyway I'll listen to it again and see what I think.

 

[EternalMetal]

Took me four times listening to it before I no longer deemed it subpar. Though the more I listen to it, the more I realize this is a record that cannot be consumed in one or two listens. I still dont know exactly what is going on in the beginning blast beat of Into the Painted Grey, but the way it is done enhances the atmospheric effect so much that I am convinced that this guy knows what he is doing despite the end result sounding like potential amatuerish play.

 

[Tennyson]

As a big Agalloch fan I was a bit disappointed with my first listen of the album. With more listens I have really grown to love it. It's an extension of AATG and that more post-rocky sound, it still holds a deep, emotional feel but it lacks the foresty, primal sound that I love from "the Mantle" and "Pale Folklore," and I think that's what turned me off at first. But as I listen again and again I am anticipating the various parts of each song more and more, and if you didn't like this album and have only given it 3 or less listens, I suggest grinding it out some more.

 

[Draehl]

It definitely grows on you. I particularly like Into the Painted Grey & Ghosts of the Midwinter Fires. They definitely lost their folky feel on this album, but it's still a great post/black metal album.

 

[CF87]

Agalloch are not a BM band dude.