epidemic of loneliness<\/a>. The words by themselves are moving, but it\u2019s the way Neurosis makes the message sound, a unique musical fingerprint years in the making, that\u2019s so affecting.<\/p>\n\n\tThe band, which formed in Oakland, California, more than 40 years ago and played gigs at 924 Gilman Street alongside Green Day, initially sounded more like Black Flag than Black Sabbath. By the early Nineties, though, they found fresh inspiration in the grinding, protracted sludge riffage of Swans and avant-garde provocatrix Diamanda Gal\u00e1s\u2019 Sophoclean rage.<\/p>\n
\n\tNeurosis perfected their psychodrama on their fifth album, Through Silver in Blood<\/em> (1996), with slow-motion minimalism (think Philip Glass\u2019 melodies, but drawn out, darker, and distorted) and Pink Floyd atmospherics courtesy of keyboardist Noah Landis. The album\u2019s \u201cLocust Star\u201d undulated with Dave Edwardson\u2019s bass, and the title track shuddered under the weight of their collective fury. They dialed it all back just the right amount on Times of Grace<\/em> (1999) for a more emotional album and found a perfect foil in ex-Swans singer Jarboe for a 2003 collaborative album. On the LPs that followed, Neurosis explored somewhat quieter, more restrained, and nuanced terrain. Fires Within Fires<\/em>, their 2016 LP and last with Kelly, sounded nearly comforting at times.<\/p>\n\n\n
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\n\tThere is no refuge on An Undying Love for a Burning World<\/em>, but there is salvation. \u201cThe dissonance is deafening,\u201d Von Till hectors on \u201cWe Are Torn Wide Open,\u201d but listeners who strain their ears will find Neurosis\u2019 signature catharsis in the dissonance. \u201cMirror Deep\u201d packs a serious wallop with a riff that hits and explodes with every bar. \u201cOur minds are mirror deep,\u201d Von Till sings, conceding, \u201cTime will lay us low,\u201d as Landis creates brittle noise around his screams. There\u2019s an unspoken message in Neurosis\u2019 music that if we all suffer together, we can reach the other side.<\/p>\n\n\tThe songs\u2019 various narrators all seem stuck physically and emotionally, like Samuel Beckett characters (How It Is<\/em>, Happy Days<\/em>) but without the irony. \u201cAs beasts we crawl, our souls in tatters,\u201d Turner, whose voice is deeper and more animalistic than Von Till\u2019s, growls on \u201cFirst Red Rays.\u201d \u201cLow to the dirt we scrape, degraded and hollowed.\u201d The song\u2019s beastlike people do see a glimmer of sunlight, but that\u2019s where the song ends, the first sentences of a happy ending. Their redemption lies in the skittering guitar and a psychedelic bridge. And on \u201cBlind,\u201d Von Till sings, \u201cFind our way through the fields we have sown\/Light our way through the graves we have known,\u201d as the guitar and synths swirl into a miasma around him.<\/p>\n\n\tThe album\u2019s centerpiece, \u201cSeething and Scattered,\u201d finds several voices apostrophizing its central message: \u201cWe\u2019re all disconnected from ourselves and each other, from all that is sacred, the source of our fall.\u201d Translation: You\u2019re a mess, get your shit together again.<\/p>\n
\n\tOn each song, Neurosis take their time to wring the full emotion out of every note, focusing on the texture of the sound with rattling rhythms, plinky guitar, and, on \u201cSeething and Scattered,\u201d John Carpenter-like analog synths. Sometimes it\u2019s loud and intimidating, sometimes it\u2019s subtle and almost pretty. \u201cUntethered,\u201d for instance, lives up to its name, only the beat keeps it steady when it starts.<\/p>\n\n\n
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\n\tAlbum closer \u201cLast Light\u201d lasts 17 minutes, and it\u2019s a journey of its own, as Turner bellows, \u201cBodies knot in darkness, together we cling,\u201d (another Beckett-like image) to no apparent rhythm, eventually breaking down to a Greek chorus meditating on the world\u2019s dissonance, conceding, \u201cThe river itself starts to weep.\u201d It concludes with Turner growling that everything gets swept away, \u201cCold fall ceaseless\/In this we are held.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tIt\u2019s cold comfort, an icy embrace, but if you made it this far, it\u2019s welcome. It\u2019s as if Neurosis are saying, \u201cIf we witness this Weltschmerz together, at least we\u2019re together.\u201d And if you choose to face the world in isolation, don\u2019t say they didn\u2019t warn you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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