![]() This album’s songs can be easily boxed into the slowcore genre, with a significant side of folk and maybe a touch of post-rock. Now, with the long-awaited trifecta completed, the doom elements are fully gone, with Perfect Light marking the triumph of Walker’s clearly-evident infatuation with 90’s slowcore, in both sound and spirit. Its follow-up, 2016’s Wider Than The Sky was more-or-less the reverse, with slowcore and post-rock now clustered with residual traces of doom metal. ![]() Debut The Inside Room, released in 2011, could easily be described as doom, although leavened with slowcore/post-rock influences. With the demise of that group, 40 Watt Sun was born and has (now) released a total of three widely-spaced out albums. ![]() In short, 40 Watt Sun’s mastermind Patrick Walker first gained a reputation as the frontman for revered British doom metallers Warning. How’d we get here, though? A little context adds meaning to this album, with the new music marking a (very impressive) endpoint to a process well over a decade in the making. ![]() Perfect Light comes to the listener fully formed, sounding even upon first listen like an iconic 90’s slowcore classic. Review Summary: An essential listen (see fine print, restrictions apply) ![]()
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