Yeah, it's pretty fucking good.. y'know... If you're into Melt Banana.
This is what I've been blasting the most over the last week:
Really was not expecting this album to live up to the crazy hype it's generating in both indie and (open minded) metal circles. I was expecting it to be a regurgitation of "Pink" by Boris, which is generally my mental reference point for awesome shoegaze infused metal.
It does bear some similarities, and it treads familiar ground. Other bands have just plain done this before. But whether or not they've ever done it this well... well, it's going to be a close call, and it's going to require time, but this album may be viewed historically as a crossover landmark. It's definitely not as simple and easily defined as I thought it would be.