★★★★★
aving found a wider audience with , last year's collaboration with Scott Walker, Seattle-based drone metal duo counterintuitively rein in some of their more avant-garde tendencies (such as the choirs and brass section of 2009's Monoliths & Dimensions) on their seventh album. This return to their roots is still defiantly uncommercial, of course...
- www.theguardian.com
2015-12-06
★★★★★
It'll be a damn shame if Kannon gets regarded as one of Sunn O)))'s minor works simply for taking up less vinyl real estate and possessing fewer aesthetic points of interest than its predecessors (burying guest vocalist Malefic alive in a coffin to get a creeped out performance being chief amongst these)...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2015-12-04
★★★★★
unn O)))'s depth is, for some, their biggest attraction. Both in terms of sound - bowel-rumbling doom metal - and outlook: Kannon's liner notes were written by critical theorist and performance artist Aliza Shvarts, who turned heads with while studying at Yale. On their first album since collaborating with Scott Walker on in 2014, Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson are on a deep dive again...
- www.theguardian.com
2015-12-04
★★★★★
After going off the deep end with Scott Walker on 2014's bleak and experimental , long-running drone metal project Sunn O))) have scaled back the ghoulishness a bit on their new album, . That's not to say the amp-cranked washes of slow-mo guitar that have marked Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson's back catalogue are any less gloomy this time around, but there's a transcendence threaded into the record that brings a special kind of calmness to ...
- exclaim.ca
2015-12-03
★★★★★
When SunnO))) and Scott Walker released Soused - their collaborative effort of last year - perhaps the biggest surprise was in how melodic it was. Neither artist has any qualms about building harsh, intimidating soundscapes in preference to songlike structures. That drone metal band SunnO))) were the ones to tip the balance was indicative of a development in their sound, albeit a subtle one. Returning here with their first unaccompanied album since 2009's
- recordcollectormag.com
2015-12-03
★★★★★
In 2008, Sunn O))) played a short series of duo concerts meant to acknowledge the band's modest, mimetic origins. Sunn O))) began as a tribute of sorts to Earth, the influential duo whose low, slow riffs and steadfast amplifier worship established the doom-metal mold that Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley were trying to fill anew. And for the first few years, that was the limit of the pair's output--lumbering riffs, played at a near-tectonic pace and deliriously high volumes...
- pitchfork.com
2015-12-03
★★★★★
SUNN O))) REMAIN TODAY'S most distinctive heavy rock stylists. Forsaking the mere ear-candy of rhythm and melody, what's left is just distortion and timbre humming across slo-mo riffs which seem to progress on a geological time scale. Such powerfully immersive "ambient metal" has attracted erudite collaborators, notably Scott Walker. But, next to 2014's Scott 0))) album Soused , this is a routine reiteration of the extraordinary...
- www.mojo4music.com
2015-11-28
★★★★★
You won't need to pinch yourself awake: As if to ensure listeners that Soused isn't some fantastic nightmare or haunted daydream, Scott Walker and Sunn O))) begin their five-track, 50-minute collaboration with a brief series of exclamation marks. Walker's voice sweeps in with extreme operatic gusto, delivering a set of simple, sliding phrases over sparkling synthesizers. Dual classic rock riffs trail those hails, like "Paradise City" abutting a scrap of "Heartbreaker"...
- pitchfork.com
2014-10-22
★★★★★
Though there's a lot to likeabout American dronemetallersSunn O))) andNorwegian folkies Ulver,namely their ferventcommitment to extremevolume and frequencies andexperimentalism, there'll bea touch of emperor's-new-clothesabout this 37-minutecollaboration for somelisteners. Let There Be Light,a lengthy, feedback-drenchedcomposition building acrossits 12 minutes into a wall ofsound, and Western Horn,a slicker, more melodic washof tones, form a prelude toEternal Return...
- recordcollectormag.com
2014-02-27
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