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|| Artist......: Yob ||
|| Album.......: Our Raw Heart ||
|| Year........: 2018 ||
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|| Genre.......: Metal ||
|| Label.......: Relapse Records ||
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|| Source......: WEB (16bit) ||
|| Encoder.....: libFLAC ||
|| Bitrate.....: 914 kbps avg. ||
|| F.Rate......: 44.1kHz ||
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|| Playtime....: 01:13:16 / 502.42MB ||
|| R.Date......: 2024-09-07 ||
|| S.Date......: 2018-06-08 ||
|| Website.....: http://deezer.com/album/59915842 ||
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|| 01. Ablaze 10:13 ||
|| 02. The Screen 9:49 ||
|| 03. In Reverie 9:43 ||
|| 04. Lungs Reach 5:39 ||
|| 05. Beauty in Falling Leaves 16:27 ||
|| 06. Original Face 7:03 ||
|| 07. Our Raw Heart 14:22 ||
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|| Nobody in metal right now is as qualified as Yob frontman Mike ||
|| Scheidt to write an album this hypnotically beautiful and ||
|| deeply peaceful, or this existentially violent with such a ||
|| breathtaking resolution to serenity. Mainly because Scheidt ||
|| nearly didn't live to write the album. ||
|| ||
|| Scheidt was diagnosed with acute diverticulitis in November ||
|| 2016 and dealt with the diagnosis appropriately. In January ||
|| 2017, he tells Noisey he began feeling ill one day but opted ||
|| not to go to a medical clinic. Instead, he went grocery ||
|| shopping. Scheidt recalls standing in the deli meat aisle and ||
|| experiencing world-distorting pain and cold sweats, which ||
|| resulted in a trip to the ER. After "the next wave of pain hit ||
|| me harder than anything that has ever has hit me in my lifetime ||
|| up to that point," Scheidt was immediately admitted and pumped ||
|| full of ineffective Dilaudid. Then the diagnosis came û a ||
|| diverticula had burst. Had the Yob frontman waited another day ||
|| to go to the doctor, he would've died. ||
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|| Scheidt began to heal in the hospital without surgery, but upon ||
|| transitioning back to consuming liquids for the first time ||
|| since his admittance, the pain returned in droves. Now surgery ||
|| was imminent. The procedure took seven hours and Scheidt came ||
|| out on the other side alive with a long road to recovery ahead ||
|| of him. Not long into his healing process shortly after the ||
|| surgery, Scheidt suffered from a serious MRSA infection from ||
|| which he would also recover. Once back on his feet, literally ||
|| and musically, Scheidt began the process of forming Our Raw ||
|| Heart. ||
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|| Scheidt likens his near-death experience to a hard drive crash. ||
|| "Some things just didn't come back. Others came back in ||
|| completely different ways. Others are still there but my ||
|| perspective is completely different. I live in a different ||
|| world now, and all of that went into this albumùnew insight, a ||
|| new sense of self." He tells Matt Bacon of Metal Injection that ||
|| he'd been messing with DADGAD tuning on guitar post-surgeries, ||
|| learned bouzouki, and took the time to expand upon his clean ||
|| singing voice. In essence, Mike Scheidt is a different man now, ||
|| and only from that renewed sense of self can come such an album ||
|| as Our Raw Heart. ||
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|| Scheidt won't reveal the lyrical meanings of Our Raw Heart, but ||
|| the album seems to musically mimic his experience in the past ||
|| year and a half. The 10-minute opening salvo of "Ablaze" slowly ||
|| unfurls its blistering pain in a haze of swirling, distorted ||
|| reverberations. "Ablaze" keeps a steady 6/8 time and evokes ||
|| feelings of spiraling downward as if it were the closing track ||
|| to Our Raw Heart, summarizing all the grief and woe into one ||
|| final tolling of the funeral bell before only silence remains. ||
|| The following song "The Screen" is more immediate in its ||
|| delivery. Scheidt and company have stepped out from the veils ||
|| of sustain found on "Ablaze" and revealed chugging ||
|| Gojira-styled riffs accompanied by bouts of lumbering ||
|| dissonance. ||
|| ||
|| Then there's "In Reverie" and "Lungs Reach." Both start off ||
|| quietly tip-toeing in the background of soft ambiance and ||
|| gentle waves of distortion, but neither stay in such a state ||
|| for very long. "In Reverie" brings even more of the discordant ||
|| guitar work "The Screen" originally displayed, but Scheidt ||
|| relies on Warrel Dane-esque cleans in slow motion throughout ||
|| the track rather than raspy screams. "Lungs Reach" is even ||
|| slower, even more droning, and by far the most pissed off Our ||
|| Raw Heart gets. Scheidt is bellowing growls into the abyss at ||
|| full force and despite the lack of speed, the trio is following ||
|| up those guttural displays of anguish with just as much fury ||
|| and uncompromising force as they possibly can. ||
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|| From the dark reaches of the void the first four tracks of Our ||
|| Raw Heart spiral into comes an expanding pinpoint of light. ||
|| "Beauty In Falling Leaves" marches through the nothingness ||
|| bearing hope and lanterns burning rich with purpose. Close your ||
|| eyes while listening to "Beauty In Falling Leaves." In its ||
|| aural tapestry, morning slowly unfurls from a rising sun and ||
|| burns away the darkness and dew. It's the dawning of a new day, ||
|| a new life. Maybe that's not what Scheidt intended, but "Beauty ||
|| In Falling Leaves" is just too powerful a song not to make you ||
|| feel something. ||
|| ||
|| On "Original Face," Yob seems to reverse what was happening on ||
|| "Ablaze." The latter felt like the closing moments of a life ||
|| while the former takes that same sound, strips away the ||
|| fogginess of its distant production style, and incorporates ||
|| more positive-sounding melodies in the vein of "Beauty In ||
|| Falling Leaves." Finally, there's the title track of the album ||
|| to close things out."Our Raw Heart" employs the hazy ||
|| brushstrokes of "Ablaze," but brings forth more meditative ||
|| melodies with heavily delayed acoustic guitars and towering ||
|| vocals. From death to rebirth to life, Our Raw Heart comes full ||
|| circle in a breathtaking climax. ||
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|| Yob's approach to all the aforementioned moods throughout Our ||
|| Raw Heart is very much rooted in their usual heaviness. Our Raw ||
|| Heart is a unique record in Yob's catalog, but it's not going ||
|| to isolate fans or make you double check who you're listening ||
|| to. Moreso than anything else, Our Raw Heart will completely ||
|| floor you. It's a masterwork that couldn't have come from ||
|| anywhere else but the torment, the fear, and the rebirth and ||
|| swelling heart of one Mike Scheidt. ||
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