Christmas

by

Old Man Gloom

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I'd like to start out by saying that idiot boy (not just a clever name) isn't listening to this album in the right manner. I agree, for just listening to a random very very heavy song, "Gift" or "Volcano" work perfectly. But Christmas was not meant to be listened for just the heavy tracks. If you actually sit down (preferably at night with the lights off playing a Silent Hill game) and listen to it you realize it is not just random ambiance. It is carefully orchestrated to inspire unease, among other things, as the nearly eight-minute long track "Accord-o-Matic" performs all too well. What that reviewer failed to realize was that even though the members come from already awesome bands like Converge and Isis, Old Man Gloom is NOT CONVERGE OR ISIS!!!! If it were just their other bands mashed together, it would sound unoriginal, uninspired, and very trife. Simply put, if I want to listen to Converge, I'll listen to Converge, and Old Man Gloom is not Converge. This may come as a shock, but when members of bands come together to form a new band, they usually do it because they want to try new things, experiment with different sounds, and they accomplish that beautifully. If you like those other bands, you won't get that in Old Man Gloom, you get something disturbingly beautiful instead that shouldn't be discounted because most of the tracks aren't heavy.