Sunik Kim: Depressing in every sense of the word. Nothing compels me to return to this after reviewing it. This feels to me like the kind of album that is fetishized by listeners as the darkest, the most brooding\u2014a simple exercise in horror and despair, the Shadow Ring\u2019s spin on slowcore\u2019s navel-gazey doom and gloom. There\u2019s nothing wrong with serious music, heavy music, dark music (see my other blurb in this issue!); and, on the opposite end, unrelentingly peppy music can be equally grating. But something about this very particular approach puts me off\u2014ultimately, it feels juvenile, lacking much-needed subtlety, outdated, too aware of \u2018what it\u2019s doing\u2019 and heavy-handed in producing its intended effect. The ratcheting acoustic glitch on \u201CClearing\u201D is interesting and initially had me excited for more; but as the minutes passed, the cobwebs piled up and the dust accumulated, my excitement also waned and decayed to pure nothingness. Maybe that was the plan all along.[2]
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