Impaled Nazarene wrote:Dumb Ideologies wrote:In a weird twist, having previously been thoroughly meh and eye-rolly at the whole thing, I listened to some Myrkur again and this time actually found it pretty good. Probably helped that I was listening outside of the immediate environment where half the people I listen to were constantly saying it was hipster trash and the others were saying it was transcendental brilliance.
Her metal content is meh at best even Babymetal does it better. As for the songs that are folk? Amazing. Her voice is outstanding. If she went the route of Funeral and Trees of Eternity for female fronted doom bands she would be beloved by all.
No diss Babymetal, hmph! Though I'd rather have Passcode or Yukueshirezutsurezure, as I've said before. But I'm drifting from the point...
I agree with your comment to the extent that no-one comes to Myrkur's albums for a "pure" bm experience and that occasionally some of the songs leaning more towards that end can be a little less interesting. The most value I get is from the tracks where the two are most cohesively combined - I do occasionally lose interest towards the "tail end" of the albums where the folky and ambient elements start to predominate beyond the threshold of diversity necessary to hold my attention, though I see from an album-cycle point of view why a late album "wind-down" tends to be a thing.
