SOM - The Shape of Everything (2022)

The American band SOM debuted five years ago with The Fall but at the beginning of this year they managed to release an even better followup in the form of The Shape of Everything (pun intended). Their heavy blackgaze is dark and captivating, no wonder this is one of the more important heavy music albums of January.

The band's sound, already baptized as "doom pop", creates a post-metal, heavy-guitar-oriented atmosphere with delicate, dreamy vocals sitting on top. In this case, they very much remind me of Holy Fawn and this is a huge compliment. The balance between the crushingly loud music with guitar riffs that dominate the soundscapes and the ethereal, shoegazey type of delivery is most certainly difficult to achieve but the Americans do it very well. You can feel that the music is heavy and airy at the same time. The blackgaze walls of noise seem to close on the listener in each of the compositions, making them feel as massive as possible and as a shoegaze release should.

This gloomy atmosphere that resides on the album and constitutes the core force behind its might, comes from observing the reality around us. Unfortunately, it usually brings darker inspirations as the band used "the darkness of recent times to create and heal". This blissful sound surely has some healing properties.

The Shape of Everything costs whatever you want to pay.

Check: Son of Winter

Country: US

Genre: airy doomgaze

Label: Pelagic Records

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