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Originally Posted by NewPhin

Starting with Agalloch Pale Folklore:


Liking the intro of first song, "She Painted Fire Across the Skyline Part 1" with wind noise in the background and a slow steady buildup. Feels like I'm in Siberia or some eastern european mountain range. And yes, there's a sweet transition at about the 4 minute mark where everything slows down. And nice, evil whispery vocals. Ooo, bonus for the operatic chick singing in the background. And we transition out of the slow and into a sort of crunchy section with "fanning" guitar chording and the whispering vocals getting progressively more evil. A second guitar comes in and starts doing a repeated solo lick over the top of the rest. Nice build of layers. Then slows down again at 7:00 and returns to the operatic singer. Oh yes, timpani at 7:30! Gotta love that. Sounds like an outro as the timpani takes over, nice melodic sparse playing of a guitar and the return to the mountain range as the howling wind returns to take us out of this song.

Yes indeed, I like the movement of that one.

Song 2: "She Painted Fire Across the Skyline Part 2"
Wind takes us into some sparse guitar picking that quickly picks up into an... almost upbeat... song. Until the evil ****er singing comes in and rips any upbeat goodness from it with the maliciousness of his voice. He sounds like what Grishnákh from the Two Towers would sound like if he started a band.

Alright, I'm just going to listen to the album now and not type. I have other shit to do. Anyway, I'm liking this quite a lot.

And just think... I like Pale Folklore the least of Agalloch's three full-length albums.