Agalloch

New friend Carl DiSalvo gave me Agalloch's album Ashes Against the Grain. Very good. I'm a fan of art that does what I call tuning. This can take many forms but one in particular interests me at present. Ideally, in music, this would be a sound so intense that it affects your body very strongly, but is so beautiful that it keeps your ears open to it, so that you are affected still more. Agalloch scores in this regard, occupying a strange edge between shoegaze and metal (to my ears).