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Album: Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - May Our Chambers Be Full
Album: Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - May Our Chambers Be Full
Unexpected post-rock/sludge metal collaboration yields fine results
Post-rock singer-songwriter Emma Ruth Rundle and high-volume, sludge metal-heads Thou are not obvious musical collaborators, but with May Our Chambers Be Full, they really have come up trumps with an album that may not encourage many to take to the dancefloor but will certainly grab the att
Opening track, “Killing Floor” is woozy and off-kilter with shades of Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s heavy neo-prog sounds, while “Monolith” is a riff-heavy grunge-like monster that its title implies. Elsewhere, “Out of Existence” and “Ancestral Recall” freely skip genres back and forth between blood curdling and skull crushing metal and more melodic sounds, building up a musical storm that ebbs and flows before finally fading away.
Final tune, “The Valley” is almost cinematic in its widescreen approach and could quite easily have appeared on Emma Ruth Rundle’s most recent solo album, On Dark Horses. Folk violin melodies intertwine with post-rock meanderings to create an atmospheric epic that lays down serious witchy vibes that build into an immense cacophony, before ebbing away again. In fact, with Halloween on the near horizon, May Our Chambers Be Full could easily provide a fine soundtrack to scare away any malevolent spirits this year.
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