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I like it. Loved Sunbather. Looked forward to this one for a long time. It's fundamentally different from Sunbather in a way I can't quite explain. In some ways it sounds more like your average black metal band, but certainly there's more going on than that. I think partly what's happening is that the shoegaze vibe of Sunbather has been kind of nudged aside by a more post-rock sound. Post-rock meshes with black metal in a less dichotomous way than shoegaze does, even though the genres are sometimes one in the same.
Oddly I think they're experimenting with a genre that has more in common with metal this time around. The result is almost like an equal opposite.
As of now I prefer Sunbather, but I can see New Bermuda getting better with age. Definitely one of the year's better albums, especially in the "rock type stuff" vein.
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