1001 Albums Summary

I was unfamiliar with ISIS before hearing this, so it came as a welcome surprise, and it is certainly the best of the User Albums I have heard so far. Reminding me very much of a more controlled mid-period Ufomammut, most of the songs follow a predictable pattern; slow start, build up, quiet bit in the middle, noisy ending. All of these are good things! As are the shouty, incomprehensible vocals (far preferable to screeching!). After two plays I would have given this a tentative 5 stars, were it not for the dreadful snare sound (it sounds like a wannabe tom; where’s the crunch?). Fabulous stuff overall, though.