블랙게이즈의 대표주자로 손꼽히던 데프헤븐은 로-블랙 스타일의 싱글 'Black brick'을 2019년 발매해 팬들은 이번 앨범이 데프헤븐의 커리어 중 제일 빡센 앨범이 되지 않을까 기대 하였지만, 기대와 다르게 블랙메탈적 요소를 대부분 버리고 슈게이즈, 드림팝에 가까운 앨범을 선보였다.
보컬 조지 클라크는 이번 앨범에서는 대부분 클린 보컬로 노래하며, 곡 후반부 하이라이트에 포인트를 주는 용도를 제외하면 굉장히 절제하여 스크리밍을 사용하는 등 이전 앨범에 비해 굉장히 이질적인 분위기의 앨범이다.
스타일의 변화가 굉장히 컸던 만큼 팬들또한 호불호가 심하게 나뉘었는데, '데프헤븐만의 색을 잃지 않고 새로운 방향성을 찾아 나간다'라며 호평하는 반응도 있었고, '이런 앨범이 데프헤븐이 아니라 다른 밴드의 앨범이었다면 좋게 봤겠지만, 데프헤븐이기에 좋게 볼 수 없는 앨범이다'라는 혹평또한 존재하였지만 전반적으로는 밴드의 새로운 시도가 나쁘지 않게 받은 수작으로 평가된다. 멤버의 말로는 본인들 앨범중 주변인에게 들려주기 가장 좋은앨범이라고...
또한 이 앨범의 경험으로 다음 앨범에서 더욱 원숙해진 사운드를 선보였으니, 밴드 본인들에게 있어서 꽤나 중요한 위치에 있는 앨범이라 볼 수 있을 것이다.
Nothing changes the condition Dormant sooted desertion
When a violet peeling shows teeth glowing Horizons fleeing, lilacs swaying A sublime wander through summer fire The char, the ash, the cough, the roar
I question the reason for the freedom in unfeeling I question the reason in this furnace of revealing
Salvage the illusion Of once mint gardens
Before a violet peeling showed teeth glowing Horizons fleeing, lilacs swaying When it takes you, you'll be remembered Young and kind for all time
I question the reason for the freedom in unfeeling I question the reason in this furnace of revealing
All my reasons gone
Flooded with raining Levees are breaking Flooded with raining, levees are breaking Houses are bursting, sisters are sleeping
Yearning for touch, but it's all too much
===# In Blur #===
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In blur, father Glanced over stirred Imagined you laughing Muddied feet dancing What is this aching prism? This prison wincing Receiving sudden swaths of dogma
Wandering over royal yonder Wandering over flooded ground again
What does daylight look like in this chaos of cold? What does daylight look like? Solitude and falling into respites now
In blur, hovered Accepted devotion Unearther, bleeding ark of creation
Wandering over royal yonder Wandering over flooded ground again
What does daylight look like in this chaos of cold? What does daylight look like? Solitude and falling into respitеs now What does daylight look like in this chaos of cold? What does daylight look likе? Solitude and falling into respites now
Who are you now?
Forgive the trembling love I'm weak and acting bold Forgive the trembling love I'm weak and acting bold And alone And alone And alone And alone
===# Great Mass of Color #===
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Quiet as a cradle I laid in a middle night drift, spinning Hissed at the moon Conjured up the flowers to fix my impression of the gloom
I feel them all, great mass of color Flooded in my bed I feel them all, big mass of color Flooded in my bed, dissolving into red
Half-awake holding my ghost in the morning Sunlight coming down the bend, maroon sky on the send My great former terror when trees gave doves the leaves And I was grim drunk death, a stranger to myself
I feel them all, great mass of color Flooded in my bed I feel them all, great mass of color Flooded in my bed, dissolving into red
(Can I accept I'm real?)
Do I need this affection? (Do you?) Do you need this confusion? (Do you?) Living trapped inside this body Soft, haunted, waiting, wanting Measured change evades real healing Taking love with little reason Seeing you as I was, behind a locked door, nervous and a (Fool) Seeing you as I was, desperate for men to guide (You)
You are the sea and nobody owns you, owns you You are the sea and nobody owns you, owns you Owns you, owns you, owns you, owns you
===# Neptune Raining Diamonds #===
연주곡.
===# Lament for Wasps #===
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Frigid bedroom capture In a spring without desire Harvesting brightness despite Drawn to the heat, not the light
I lay steady, stare at the ceiling Waking fears of nothing You lament for wasps, you glow cobalt In the home of the friendliness
Another night spent fussing, feasting like the lords Laughing at the fronting, singing to the chords Of Hell imagined To the chords of Hell imagined Hell imagined Hell imagined
In this perfect hour Gasping in a sleepless kneel Holding onto gleaming teal
I lay steady, stare at the ceiling Waking fears of nothing You lament for wasps, you glow cobalt In the home of the friendliness
Another night spent fussing, feasting like the lords Laughing at the fronting, singing to the chords Of Hell imagined To the chords of Hell imagined Hell imagined Hell imagined
Lament for wasps, cobalt blue Lament for wasps, cobalt blue Lament for wasps, cobalt blue Lament for wasps, cobalt blue (Once again this color sees an end) Lament for wasps, cobalt blue (Once again this color sees an end) Lament for wasps, cobalt blue (Once again this color sees an end) Lament for wasps, cobalt blue (Once again this color sees an end) Lament for wasps, cobalt blue
===# Villain #===
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A cold floor fit for you In all your midnight itching No one coming quickly to save you from the after Hurried with the hounds now
He's my own (Eclipsing my love, his rottweiler sermon) He's my own (Driving the talons, my own villain rising)
Thirty months, I'm still asking if thirty months feels strong Thirty months, I'm seeking a thirty months' fortune Inform my mother's people thirty months is war Dealing with the blood of thirty years well worn
He's my own (Eclipsing my love, his rottweiler sermon) He's my own (Driving the talons, my own villain rising)
You're not alarmed by this heady division? You're not alarmed by this heady division?
My own villain rising My own villain rising
===# The Gnashing #===
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Buried secrets, mythic meanings In tender oceans spilling crimson A leaking thimble flowing fragile Oozing tension into blue
Hear these howls hurling our present I know what this costs us Hear these howls, embrace the gnashing I know what this costs us, I know it's exhausting you
A hush, a hush Like cloaking garments over shivers In this honeyed season, why are the boys bleeding? Have your tears touched someone's eyes tonight?
Hear these howls hurling our present I know what this costs us Hear these howls, embrace the gnashing I know what this costs us, I know it's exhausting you
Now I see, now I see You're weeping with reason Now I see, now I see You're weeping with reason Now I see, now I see You're weeping with reason Now I see, now I see You're weeping with reason
===# Other Language #===
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In dreams speaking In other language Held you closely Fed on lightning
How could you see Beacons shining in the shallow? How could you know Relief while sinking to mirages out of view?
Crawl and wander Tears to water Growing this garden alone
How could you see Beacons shining in the shallow? How could you know Relief while sinking to mirages out of view? Blues and golds Jewels for Heaven knows I know I hear the sound Imagine loving you at funerals for the few
Navel gazing, birds escaping Before the quake comes crashing Navel gazing, birds escaping Waiting in the light to die Bound wet legs splayed for the heat wave For the heat wave Bound wet legs splayed for the heat wave Waiting in the light to die
===# Mombasa #===
앨범의 하이라이트를 장식하는 마지막 트랙으로, 포스트락 스타일의 연주가 5분간 이어진 후 블래스트 비트를 필두로 한 블랙메탈 연주로 마무리한다. 드러머 대니얼 트레이시의 말로는 "이쯤되면 빡세게 한번 조질때 됐다"라고...
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Stranded naked on the sandbar, echoed from the stars Neon sea snake, cemetery roaming under dusk
Doberman visions, you're undressing Mute and bleary
Hillside castles baking down to sand Hillside castles baking down to sand
Shamed red Chopin plays awful sounds from the dresser Nurses' hands carving in slate, hummingbird gestures
Sleeping in nectar Teething on freedom Sleeping in nectar Teething on freedom
The hospital bed filled with your apathy In a haze of heat, a father hums his tragic song Before the cold sees it's ceremony in your icy eyes The daybreak glance given
Travel now Where they can't let you down Where you can't fail them now Travel now Where they can't let you down Where you can't fail them now Travel now Where they can't let you down Where you can't fail them now Travel now Where they can't let you down Where you can't fail them now