Band:	Sun Devoured Earth
Album:	Day After Day, Year After Year, When Will It End
Style:	Post-Rock, Shoegaze, Atmospheric black metal
Release date:	September 21, 2011
A review by:	KwonVerge

01. Leaving Everything Behind
02. Grow Up
03. Stupid Waste Of Time
04. Take Me Home
05. Pessimistic Fuck
06. Fate
07. So Boring
08. Seassparks

Sun Devoured Earth is a small apocalypse to me this year, the more I dwell inside those sound corridors, the more I understand. Of course no-one can even get close to how the artist feels or what he has to say. What you can achieve as a listener is to resemble the vibes of an album and translate it through your mind and experience under the complex chemical reaction named emotion. That's called personality, both the artist and the listener have their own and they meet somewhere in the middle.

As I've already said in thoughts concerning some other releases of Sun Devoured Earth, Vadim Vasilyev has been very creative during 2011 and I checked every now and then whether he released something new and he never failed to present something. Over-creativity has its faults as well, by releasing too many albums/EPs within one year the chances to lose yourself in uninspired fields become stronger and Every New Dead Ghost may have gotten lost in the corner. Thankfully enough, such problems haven't occurred in this case and I'm grateful. Day After Day, Year After Year, When Will It End is a new EP that was released just a while ago and this time there's no place for metal music neither in the foreground nor in the background.

The overall attempt's cause is to give space to breathe to the 80s dark-wave and post-punk scene while being embraced by dream-pop/shoegaze at the same time. There's definitely an immense melancholic aura, but it's being compensated by the dreamy and nostalgic undertones. Even when you dive deeper, there's always something to get your head to the surface so as to keep on breathing; you're still underwater, at least you can breathe, it's something, isn't it? The guitar chords and the acoustic passages adorn the album in various ways; either tranquil and floating or more intense in terms of emotional splendor they never fail to make their sound apparent. The pounding bass lines not only lend groove to the compositions, they are also a living entity within the songs whenever they come to the foreground on purpose to play their part. As for the vocals they're clean and entrancing, imposing in their own way through vast seas of tranquility, they escalate the atmosphere in secrecy. Part of the ambiance is the production too, every single instrument and the vocals as well have an echo of their own, from the chords to the drumming and from the bass to the interpreting. Every music meter elevates itself a bit higher through the echo effect and blends with the next one while it is fading; a sense of hallucination is being accomplished.

If you like the Disintegration-Wish Cure era, Joy Division, Interpol of Turn Off The Bright Lights, The Sound in terms of echoing guitars, The Chameleons in their most internal moments ("Less Than Human" for example), etc, then I don't see any reason why you shouldn't lose yourself in this attic of bereft dreams.