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The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand Retail 2007 GRAVEWISH

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Artist: The Angelic Process
Album: Weighing Souls With Sand
Year: 2007
Rel. Date: 2008-02-18
Genre: Metal
Label: Profound Lore Records
Source: CD
Type: Retail
Encoder: LAME 3.97
Quality: VBR, 44.1kHz, Joint Stereo

Athens, Georgia's The Angelic Process are in
league with a well-acquainted sort, pressing
influences if not all obvious at first listen, at
least conveyed in some market-based fraternity
with Swans, Neurosis, Jesu, Aidan Baker of Nadja
and the general reverberating pool surrounding
"shoegaze" pioneers My Blood Valentine. _Weighing
Souls with Sand_ is the eleventh recording by the
Process -- a collaboration between husband and
wife duo K. Angylus and MDragynfly -- producing
nine tracks of sweet born melodies given up
towards passion's pyre. A focus that many abject
and sour adolescents have in the past taken up as
sentimental and tiredly romantic, but here
impresses distinctly powerful and sultry music
even while carrying that lineage.

_Souls'_ heavily crafted pieces cycle in plush
waves of strings and throbbing machine-beats.
Alternating voices between its architects, each
are brought together in phantom shades while
captured in a fulsome, blurred and in any other
sense probably "bad" production (much in the home
studio style of Nadja or even Methadrone and
Graveland) that nevertheless enhances the
emotional ebb and flow, with titles like "The
Resonance of Goodbye" and "We All Die Laughing"
immediately followed by "Dying in A Minor"
spelling out as much that's soon heard.

Such is the light into dark aspect of the tracks
themselves. Eased in by already drowned
synthesizers, soaked in a cocktail of aching
desires, many tracks contain at least some germ of
what follows, returning to familiar motifs and
structure either in drawn out movements of some
eight minutes in length or shortened while
maintaining the sense of enchantment. This is the
case in "World Deafening Eclipse" and "Resonance
of Goodbye", which explode not long into things,
but also as if they had been building since
practially the end of their last record. Although
the name of the group suggests a lapsarian bent,
the music (or more correctly, the listener) is
unburdened by floods of sadness or guilty
wanderings and denied many indulgences and
contrivances that would otherwise turn the warm
gale of its drama into a full-blown, hysterical
disaster. There is instead plenty of gnashing
discord and mountainous shifts of guitar to stir
and rouse as much of _Souls'_ dynamic color.

It's true that to be in line with great tragedy
often requires both participants' dissolve.
Fortunately, a literal sacrifice is not necessary
to make a great album and in this vein. While I'm
hesitant to associate native talent on top of
sanctity, it's taken two lovers to tackle it this
goddamn well.

http://www.theangelicprocess.com/


NOTE: In the other group's rip the first track
cuts off after 5 seconds and last track cuts off
over 1.5 minutes before it's end, resulting in a
total of 11 minutes missing from the album.


1. The Promise of Snakes 9:32
2. Million Year Summer 3:52
3. The Resonance of Goodbye 5:14
4. We All Die Laughing 6:05
5. Dying in A-Minor 8:19
6. Weighing Souls With Sand 5:20
7. Mouvement - World Deafening Eclipse 1:59
8. Burning in the Undertow of God 6:46
9. Mouvement - The Smoke of Her Burning 4:16
10. Untitled (Hidden Track) 5:44
57:07

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