Weighing Souls With Sand

I can see why people would dislike this LP, but to me it exemplifies the raw, terrifying power that music can wield. Maximal shoegaze instrumentation, wall-to-wall production that leaves nowhere to hide, and a dark touch of melodicism yield an album that evokes what it would be like to live within an all-encompassing sonic tornado. Though the tracks here feel slightly disconnected from one another and EP-like rather than a full album, the experience was still absolutely insane from one end of the hour to the other. Wish the list had more daring picks like this one – this has been one of my favorite finds so far.

Is this gonna be more modern post rock? ffs. Yep. Boooooooooooooring. It thinks so highly of itself (look at that title), but it's just.... nothing. Minimalist crap for pretentious dickheads. Fuck you. 1/5.

Rating: 9/10 Best songs: We all die laughing, Dying in A-minor, The resonance of goodbye

I wasn't expecting someone to submit this album, but I'm really glad they did. This is a fantastic album with a truly tragic story. This album feels like sinking in quicksand.

Interesting wall of noise somewhere between shoegaze and industrial. Several good songs, some are a bit too long and interchangeable.

I was definitely judging a book by its cover on this one (weird cringe emo stuff) and ended up being somewhat correct (ambient emo noise rock). Honestly I got excited when I saw that it was inspired by mbv but I hear more sad ambient noise than anything overtly shoegaze. Bet this goes hard at satanic heroin raves tho.

Horrible, boring trash.

My missus said "this is enough to give you a brain hemorrhage, it's Shite!" For that reason alone it gets 5/5 from me. Seriously, I'm interested in this Drone Metal genre- very atmospheric and brooding.

Heavy cinematic orchestral metal. A great time!

Most bands that say they're influenced by My Bloody Valentine are boring (exception- Mogwai). Where this crosses it with doomy, droney metal, it's anything but. Like a bleak warm bath.

This album really falls into a sweet spot for me. The combination of metal and shoegaze definitely scratches an itch in my brain. I could see how lots of folks would not care for this album since it's so noisy, but I thought it was really well executed overall, though I think the production could have been a little cleaner in places 4/5

Intense, nuanced, dirgeful sound. Not for every day, but I thought this was quite good. It's a bit challenging on the ears, but contrasting quieter moments with the heavier walls of sound keeps the whole thing from getting too overwhelming. Fave Songs: Dying in A-minor, Mouvement - World Deafening Eclipse, The Promise of Snakes

You can hear the tornment on each and every note. Quite a sad life-story of these artists. Musicaly wasn't really my kind of thing. But it was listenable

Sure, compress the everloving f-k out of everything and you definitely end up with a sound... It sort of turns all sounds into percussion or at best a minimally tuneful ambient wash. Lyrics are incomprehensible, whichis a shame as it seems.like he had something to say. For all these gripes there is something there, but the methodology here nearly wipes it out.

Heavy heavy

Didn't care for this. 2 stars.

Drone metal, ambient, shoegaze. Un tostón. No me ha gustado. Un 2.

Weighing Souls With Sand has some real potential at the start of this album, it explodes into your ears with a raw, deafening angst-ridden sound full of emotion, but then it just does all of that for an hour with hardly any notable differences from song to song. It gets tired very quickly, which is disappointing, and only warrants a 2. I could listen to any one of these songs and not be able to tell you what it's called or what the point of it was, but I'd still probably enjoy most of that track for what it is.

The Wikipedia article says this album was in the style of doom metal and that couldn’t have been more accurate in description. This felt very ominous like I was about to be struck down. It wasn’t really that great either. It was a dark lurking album that was unique instrumentally but felt a bit one dimensional. 4.2/10

I didn’t think I would remember this album as I listened to it 5 days ago. And then I did remember and I wish I hadn’t. It was noise.

I like experimental noise. This was a 1 track trick

i had no idea this was its own genre of ambient doom metal or whatever... it's not for me. I think i need a bit less ambient.

Would rather fill my ass with soul sand than listen to this again

I’m pretty sure this broke my AirPods

I felt it was closer to noise than music. Terrible acoustic filth. A sort of dull, hypnotic melody that leads nowhere.

This was definitely different… too different for me to enjoy at all. But quite emotional! Just painful which maybe is the point but I can’t do it.

My least favourite of the user-submitted albums so far. I don’t want to be too harsh as the album deals with a quite heavy subject matter and clearly means a lot to quite a few people based on some of the reviews. It’s great that it has provided that catharsis, and the best thing about music is that different music can resonate with different people in completely different ways. That being said I just did not vibe with this. Everything was so reverbed and distorted that it was unintelligible, and the few bits of clean vocals that cut through sounded really rough. On top of that it was all just quite boring as well. There wasn’t really any song structure or development - each track just relied on these thick shoegazy textures, and the textures sounded bad