Lovingly pinched from CVLT Nation: Roads to Judah is the debut album from San Francisco based band Deafheaven. In 2010 the band released a demo as a limited cassette and digitally through bandcamp. After receiving positive reviews from various blogs, the band was picked up by renowned label Deathwish Inc. Part of what makes this band so compelling is the inability to assign them to a specific genre.
They have influences that include shoegaze, black metal, post rock, screamo and are on a predominantly hardcore label. Oh, and you’ll also hear the word “hipster” being tossed around. What makes Roads to Judah so successful is their ability to take all these seemingly disparate styles and blend them into a cohesive, and more importantly, enjoyable record.
Roads to Judah is an album of balance. The music alternates between beauty and brutality. The intensely personal lyrics are tempered with metaphor and abstraction. Rather than having schizophrenic switches from genre to genre, the different stylistic elements flow in and out of each other.
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