Originally Posted by atsonicpark

Hmm.

Well, I'm a huge Sunn fan, I guess, I mean one of my bands is basically a Sunn tribute band, so... Yeah.. I have all their stuff, either bought or in CD-R format... and I've listened to all of their albums many, many times, so I guess I am pretty educated on the world of Sunn and their 4-5-4-6 riffs.

Anyway... I don't understand why Sway would enjoy this disc... it's the same "slow chords drawn out forever" thing they always do.. but with some vocals and keyboards (very minimal and I think only at the beginning of a few tracks) and slicker production.. so, I was asking Sway why he could get into this kinda and not the others.

I love the early stuff, because it's so minimal and dirty and raw. I think when it got to around "White", they started deviating from their original sound in interesting ways, though it sometimes failed (the cover of For Whom the Bell Tolls comes to mind)... I appreciate their experiments, but it seemed to prove that their concept was already wearing thin..

Black is good enough and probably their last really good album they'll make. It's like their early stuff except slickly produced and with awful awful vocals and there's even guitar interplay in the second track (?!)...

"Altar" was the first Sunn release (or Boris release for that matter) that I found boring. It was just.. boring. It did nothing for me. And "Oracle", I dunno, it's just the same old crap but more "epic" and produced. Meh.

I think they're just going down a road wherein each new album gets me less and less excited. I mean, this band was originally a "side project" thing that was only supposed to last a few albums, but they keep going further and further.. playing in a doom drone band myself, I can readily admit how easy it is to get bored of playing and performing this kind of stuff. And it's very difficult to take the concept further than they've already taken it.

I'm not trying to offend anyone, my love of Sunn is obvious, I just fear that they're going to keep doing more albums that don't do anything for their sound except take it in less exciting directions. At least they are conceptually and aesthetically pleasing in all the directions they're going down; but realistically, their initial sound -- slow chords drawn out forever -- can't be expanded upon too much without taking away from what made it good to begin with. I'm happy Sunn is doing what they're doing... and I know the only reason they're experimenting so much is because they figured out that any kid with a decent amp could make a perfect copy of what Sunn is doing, so Sunn is probably trying to be taken seriously as "songwriters" instead of directionless amp worshippers... I just hope this Sunn thing doesn't go on for another 10 years, because .. yeah, they keep getting a little bit worse on each album, and that scares me.

Whoo. I hope that explained it.