I think I might like this kind of thing, can anyone recommend the single most crucial album from this scene for me to buy first?
A decade old, and the best:
Miles heaver than Sparowes/Isis/Pelican, and infinitely deeper (for my money). Ridiculously tough going to begin with (there is a period of about four minutes of the opening track which will test mettle), but perserverence really pays off.
If you're into Khanate (RIP), then
Crippled Lucifer (Seven Psalms For Our Lord Of Light)
by Burning Witch is essential. Pretty much a very similar thing, but years before.
Also, the last Earth album is really great stuff. So clean-sounding compared to their earlier output, it is incredibly grand. Albeit in a rather understated way, if that makes any sense.
did anyone like boris' pink album, i wasn't feeling it at all?
I thought it was great; the opening song is one of the best things they've done. I have to say, though, that their more recent
Dronevil -final- is really impressing me on initial listens.