Cost: $1.00
I looked this up before buying, and everything online indicated it was going to be some sort of weird sludge/doom--not terribly enticing, but for a dollar, I can check it out. Even with low expectations, this was disappointing. Overall it's more like psychedelic post-rock. The distorted guitar and psychedelic feel occasionally hint at Sabbathy influences, which are often too far removed to make anything on here positively metal. At times they seem to be going for a bleak atmosphere, but it's largely undermined by the upbeat, rockish riffing and the folksy overtones they put into the music. This would have been far more interesting with a funeral doom guitar tone and riffing approach. Speaking of folksy, two songs ("The Old Sexton" and "Aura Lea...") go off completely from the style on the rest of the album into ambient folk/country music territory. I can see the Western themes making sense as album art or lyrical inspirations, but the way they're integrated into the actual music here comes off as a bit of a tryhard attempt to seem unique.
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