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Originally Posted by GeneticKiss

But, like all things we're talking about something relative (or as TV Tropes would put it, Your Mileage May Vary) here.

oh, you went and looked at this in depth. i can't tell you if their picks have any internal consistency with their definitions. i just went with "distortion" and "dark themes" lololol, plus some personal intuitions. but yes the earlier albums are "heavier" whatever than means.

"brother james" or "she's in a bad mood" or "inhuman"--pretty heavy. i mean relatively to the rest.

with the ep, richard edson's drumming is too funky for me to be "heavy."

as for other songs, i was going to throw in "in the kingdom #19" as well and forgot to write it.

musical inaccessibility is something else altogether for me though. eg "lee is free" defies many conventions of popular intelligibility and it's in the in the middle of a "heavy" album, but to me it sounds like beautiful meditative bells with the guitar harmonics (?). nothing dark about that mood and nothing heavy. it's rather angelic and... leaning to ethereal (but not quite). the dissonances are almost camouflage. whatever anxiety was there resolves into joy.

maybe heavy is what garcía lorca called "duende". too long to explain... but... it's the art that rather than seek beauty, or display cleverness, struggles against death.

https://aion.mx/literatura/teoria-y-juego-del-duende
https://www.carmeloveneto.it/joomla/...del_duende.pdf
https://www.poetryintranslation.com/...orcaDuende.php (i am not sure about this translation, but appears enthusiastic)

but maybe i got it all wrong hahahaha