Sleep are still dedicated freaks and effortless doom metal masters who use their skill to write praise songs to the sweet leaf. Aside from a new drummer (and Pike’s hair), not much has changed for the band. Sleep started when its members were teenagers back then, their now-legendary guitarist Matt Pike had white dreads that flopped around as his guitar solos ascended to heaven. Of course, George Clarke’s tonsil-ripping growl remains several degrees more fearsome and ferocious than even Billy Corgan’s most anguished wails, but then, what do you think a raging rat in a cage is supposed to sound like? –Stuart BermanĪs Juuling has taken over high schools around the country, it’s only appropriate that some lifelong stoners in their 40s would come back to remind us that the only acceptable way to inhale vapor is through a bong.
The elegant piano-led build of “You Without End” (aka Deafheaven’s “Tonight, Tonight”) and serene, stargazing sway of “Near” are disarming enough, but it’s the 11-minute “Honeycomb” that best illustrates Deafheaven’s shifting priorities: What begins as a blast-beat blur gradually dissolves into a Siamese Dream of an outro that’ll have you scouring the liner notes for a James Iha cameo.
But more than ever before, on Ordinary Corrupt Human Love, their atomic fusion of melancholy and infinite madness assumes the lighter-waving splendor and communal ecstasy of arena rock. But these two things have absolutely nothing to do with one another, because that excellent Smashing Pumpkins album was actually made by Deafheaven.įor the past half-decade, the San Francisco-bred band have been experimenting with the soluble qualities of black metal, heating it up and melting it down until it evaporates into dream pop.
In 2018, the Smashing Pumpkins ( sort of) got back together, and an excellent Smashing Pumpkins album was released.
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