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This here is quite an album, the best I've heard from any postrockers, although lift yr. Skinny Fists comes close. Anyway, this is very beautiful, majestic music, and the unintelligible vocals are dreamlike and wonderful. In fact, I'm glad he's not singing in English, because he could potentially have an EMO-esque voice.

Anyway, people always say that this has a light half and a dark half, but the only strictly "light" songs are numbers 3 and 4, and the only strictly "dark" songs are numbers 5 and 7. The others are all a mixture of light and dark, and each song is fantastic.

Number One is a slightly sad, but hopeful, piano driven song, but like all the songs on here, it is very slow. The vocals are dreamy here, but this song is mostly the same thing over and over for 7 minutes. Still great though.

Number 2 is slightly darker, but it has some beautiful lighter moments. Second worst on here, just because it isn't that memorable.

Number 3 is a strictly instrumental piano driven song, very nice and slow, dreamy stuff. Again, its pretty much the same thing over and over, but very nice stuff.

Number 4 is the best on here by a short margin, the main melody is very great and uplifting, and the organ breakdown is superb, as well as the piano breakdown which segues into the awesome outro. All in all a fantastic song.

Number 5 is the worst on here probably, the least memorable, and the darkest. With that said, it is still very good. Lots of slow, stately, melancholic hammond organ here, pretty good all around, just not as strong as the rest.

Number 6 is similar to number 4, it is very beautiful and uplifting. I love this one.

Number 7 is a dark one, but better than number 5. It features a couple of buildups into angry heavier spots, but they aren't exactly "heavy," but very angry and propulsive. This is all in all very good.

Number 8 is second best to Number 4 on here. The verse melody is dark, but the chorus is very nice. The ending, which some say is the best display of raw anger ever, is truly awesome. It is a good represntation of what to expect with this album, listen to it on this site.

All in all, this is a terrific and evocative album, I like to listen to it while I sleep: it makes me dream of high snowy mountains, and caves, and vast white plains. I love this album, and the strange singing makes it all the more wonderful. A masterpiece.