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'Enne' creaking boat noises, the atmosphere is there; it's simple, fresh, it's basic but it gently disconnects you from reality to bring you to 'Taistelu' with its overlooped, redundant, hypnotic sound, from the best ANATHEMA, sulphurous, which puts you in a trance, ode to creation divine of the frenzied and snowy high steppes. 'Maanpako' continues led by a dark and delicate piano arpeggio, solemn, jazzy drums, soft; the break wants to be hellish, raw on a heavy riff then it goes down and touches the divine. Anton's death voice wakes us up from lethargy, warm. 'Kutsu' follows mix of previous titles with loudness, debauchery of sounds of a malmström and soft melancholic lament; the voice is clear, on the original language; angelic choirs come for a time to amplify the state of bliss, a horn, waves and 'Raivo' arrives, pompous, grandiloquent, majestic; we are on the absolute musical emphasis, between cathedral doom and happy melancholy spleen; around 3'40'' it's orchestral ecstasy with a riff from beyond the grave, then Anton's death voice, the return of this heavy, harmful and so enjoyable riff before the symphonic flight over disaffected limbo from the steppe; we are again on the ANATHEMA sound of their second period, the sidereal beauty, the intrinsic beauty, the Beauty with a last solo à la CAVANAGH. 'Ote' and the waves which allow the transition with this crystalline piano; the synths are even more majestic, showing the idyllic character that one note after another can recreate; warm Finnish voice for a melancholic decrescendo of great beauty, invading spleen at the tip of the ship's bow; the post-rock guitar suddenly reminiscent of the SIGUR ROS, the air always latent, angelic and majestic, I dare not write divine. life before 50, otherwise you don't know what Life is; a slow climb to capsize the boat? a time when everything merges even without LSD or another magic mushroom; post again monolithic but stratospheric, basic but clear, creative and beautiful; for the finale, an icy guitar arpeggio on these sounds of boats and mooring lines from the start.

Well, giant album in its genre from one of the best current bands for the sound generated and the atmospheres suggested, that's how it is. You have to have it, listen to it, keep it to yourself.

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