VATTNET VISKAR · Settler | CD
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Product information "VATTNET VISKAR · Settler | CD"
Jewel case CD.
Background information about 'Settler'
There is a moment about forty seconds into "Dawnlands" where Vattnet Viskar stop circling and simply dive, and from there "Settler" never really lets you back up for air. The New Hampshire quartet built this record on a very particular kind of American bleakness — not the foggy European sort, but the cold, wide, granite-and-pine desolation of the Northeast, where the winters are long and the silence is heavier than any riff. What makes it hit so hard is the restraint. These songs breathe before they bruise, letting clean, mournful guitar lines hang in the air like breath on a January morning before the distortion swallows everything whole.
And when it does swallow, it is glorious. "Yearn" and "Impact" move with a patient, tidal weight, while the title track tightens into something almost unbearably tense, all clenched melody and forward motion. "Heirs" stretches past six minutes and earns every second of it, and "Coldwar" closes the whole thing out like a slow collapse into deep water. The production keeps the low end thick and the vocals buried just far enough back to feel like a voice shouting across a frozen lake. It is heavy, yes, but it is heavy in the way grief is heavy — deliberate, human, and impossible to shake off.
For fans of: Deafheaven, Wolves in the Throne Room, Panopticon, Tombs, Inter Arma
Track listing
- Dawnlands
- Colony
- Yearn
- Impact
- Glory
- Heirs
- Settler
- Coldwar
Manufacturer: Century Media Records GmbH, Schäferstr. 33a, 44147 Dortmund, Germany, Contact: www.centurymedia.com
| Artist: | Vattnet Viskar |
|---|---|
| Label/Manufacturer: | Century Media Records |
| Product type: | CD |
| Genre: | Sludge |
| Format: | CD |
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