![]() Every cool idea feels like it gets strained beyond its breaking point, and every cool moment is lost in the sea of the generic-feeling moments that surround it. The problem is that every song on here gets stretched to twice that length. They would probably make for fantastic songs of about 5 minutes or less. Yes, the band has all those cool songwriting ideas that I mentioned. It’s all rather glorious, fantastic to behold in its melancholic majesty, and I am just so. In-between those moments of return, the music runs free, climbing peaks of blasting fury, descending into valleys of doom-paced despair, and exploring the meadows that lie between. ![]() Many songs do an excellent job of establishing an idea, be it a certain melody or a certain mood in their intro and making that the motif of the track, a sort of focal point that it returns to throughout its runtime. And HFTS has some skill in that department, no doubt. I usually come down in favour of a more raw and dirty sound, but I can certainly tolerate a clean production if the songwriting is interesting. Drums sound big and booming, guitars sound sharp so they can properly soar through their melancholic riffs, and the vocals sit square in the middle of the mix so that every anguished line reaches us clearly. ![]() Right off the bat, it’s clear that this is immaculately produced stuff. Austrian post-black poster child Harakiri for the Sky is just such a band for me, but they haven’t been around that long, so when I got the promo for their latest, 5th album Mære, I figured it’s not too late to finally figure out whether I want in on what they’re up to. I’m sure you all have one or perhaps several bands that you keep hearing about but somehow never get around to checking out, and all of a sudden it’s 20 years later and they’ve released 10 albums and you don’t even know where to start, so you just write them off. Why not Harakiri for the Heavens or Seppuku for the Sky though? ![]()
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