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40 Watt Sun - Wider Than The Sky



8.1 | 96 votes |
Release date: 14 October 2016
Style: Slowcore

Owners:

56 have it
11 want it


01. Stages
02. Beyond You
03. Another Room
04. Pictures
05. Craven Road
06. Marazion

Line-up
Patrick Walker - guitar, vocals
Christian Leitch - drums, percussion
William Spong - bass, percussion

Additional musicians:
Laurence Collyer - additional vocals

Additional info
Produced by 40 Watt Sun.

Staff review by
BitterCOld
Rating:
9.0
Wider Than The Sky marks the tragic yet triumphant return of 40 Watt Sun, some five years after their inaugural effort, The Inside Room. The bar was set pretty high for this one.

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published 14.10.2016 | Comments (17)

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04.11.2016 - 02:59
Rating: 9
Diverge
Written by tea[m]ster on 03.11.2016 at 19:38

Written by Diverge on 22.10.2016 at 20:41

I think this might be my front-runner for album of the year.

Oh fuck. I'm on it.

This one and Bossk's Audio Noir. I still need to listen to MotA, though.
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24.11.2016 - 00:55
Rating: 10
Monolithic
♠♠♠
"Stages" is such a marvelous piece of music. So emotional, so somber and yet so marvelous.
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23.12.2016 - 07:49
Maco
Pvt Funderground
Album of the year.
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Crackhead Megadeth reigns supreme.
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24.12.2016 - 18:18
Rating: 7
tea[m]ster
Au Pays Natal
Contributor
Written by Diverge on 04.11.2016 at 02:59

This one and Bossk's Audio Noir. I still need to listen to MotA, though.

If this is metal "I am a goddam Chinaman..."
Post rock? Doom rock? Hard Doom Rock? Heavy Doom Hard Post Rock?
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rekt
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24.12.2016 - 18:22
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Elite
Written by tea[m]ster on 24.12.2016 at 18:18

Written by Diverge on 04.11.2016 at 02:59

This one and Bossk's Audio Noir. I still need to listen to MotA, though.

If this is metal "I am a goddam Chinaman..."
Post rock? Doom rock? Hard Doom Rock? Heavy Doom Hard Post Rock?

No metal at all and also not doom als not hard rock, maybe rock, almost singer songwriter sort of stuff, just a great slab of music.
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Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal

Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight
Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.)
05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996

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24.12.2016 - 18:29
Rating: 9
Diverge
Written by tea[m]ster on 24.12.2016 at 18:18

Written by Diverge on 04.11.2016 at 02:59

This one and Bossk's Audio Noir. I still need to listen to MotA, though.

If this is metal "I am a goddam Chinaman..."
Post rock? Doom rock? Hard Doom Rock? Heavy Doom Hard Post Rock?

Yeah, no metal at all here.
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24.12.2016 - 18:29
Rating: 7
tea[m]ster
Au Pays Natal
Contributor
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 24.12.2016 at 18:22

No metal at all and also not doom als not hard rock, maybe rock, almost singer songwriter sort of stuff, just a great slab of music.

Good call Marcel. Sometimes it's better not to classify, not to genre tag, just shut the fuck up and listen and enjoy. Very emotional stuff. I feel his pain.
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rekt
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24.12.2016 - 18:45
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Elite
Written by tea[m]ster on 24.12.2016 at 18:29

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 24.12.2016 at 18:22

No metal at all and also not doom als not hard rock, maybe rock, almost singer songwriter sort of stuff, just a great slab of music.

Good call Marcel. Sometimes it's better not to classify, not to genre tag, just shut the fuck up and listen and enjoy. Very emotional stuff. I feel his pain.

I am the first to genre tag and such. But it is impossible in this case
It's emotional stuff like Nick Cave, Leanord Cohen and such.
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Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal

Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight
Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.)
05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996

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07.09.2018 - 08:17
Maco
Pvt Funderground
Written by Maco on 07.09.2018 at 08:17

This is one of the best things I'd ever listened to.

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Crackhead Megadeth reigns supreme.
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16.01.2020 - 04:27
Rating: 9
Neachy
I was listening to this and suddenly realized who Patrick Walker's cadence reminds me of; so I opened YouTube and played R.E.M. - Losing My Religion on half speed. It's uncanny
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28.07.2020 - 16:09
Rating: 9
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Staff
One of the most evocative albums created by a metal musician, though no traces of metal can be found with the exception of the doom-esque pacing and atmosphere. As Marcel mentioned before, this is essentially doom's singer-songwriter equivalent.

To me, this further stripped down approach suits their sound better than their debut and allows for Walker's voice to carry the burden, so to speak. "Pictures" is as close to an up number as this band will ever get, which is saying a lot, as it still maintains the desolate vibe established from the beginning of "Stages".
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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11.09.2021 - 19:11
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Good doom, a bit Kostas and Pantheist style more adult orientated doomy music , some say Anathema in post doom era is emotional, this is much better to me. Indeed underrated band
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I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens.

Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die"

I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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06.02.2022 - 12:04
Dylan 1974
Not sure what the fuck slowcore is but this is a stone-cold beast of an album.
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