Deafheaven - Infinite GraniteOver the course of their first ten years, Deafheavens music vacillated between tormented beauty and harmonic rage, a hybrid of black metals malice and shoegazes sublime wall of sound. On their fifth album, Infinite Granite, Deafheaven are no longer toying with the juxtaposition of pitting metallic abrasion against swirling grandeur. Quite the opposite: Infinite Granite is a bold and brave leap forward, a gorgeous and invigorating album brimming with

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and Becky Margaret

Kay Carroll (backing vocals) and Yvonne Pawlett (keyboards)

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from his liner notes Memphis is a city with music in its blood

The album covers an extraordinary amount of ground in its 45 minutes

Amidst eleven tracks of perfectly-formed

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honest and delightfully conversational manner