Second album for the band from Illinois and definitely a second hit. The cover is stunning, designed by Aaron Turner, featuring a stormy sky that heralds and introduces an album with sounds increasingly reminiscent of Isis; the usual, endless instrumental compositions that grow in intensity as they unfold. However, there are also more serene, intimate, reflective moments with a sense of expansiveness in an album to be listened to at night, while traveling, on an endless deserted highway... SIRIUS...
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