Slow moving mystic crust, layered on top of slow moving heavy ancient mist that will surround your whole aura & illuminate your darkest thoughts. Morne’s new album, Asylum, out now via Profound Lore, is one mammoth dose of radness. This album almost has a meditative quality about it & that’s one thing I really dig. The songs on this album are beings unto themselves that evolve with every listen; or you could say that they are books that have mad chapters that will enthrall you with each turn of the page. Morne’s use of melody on this album is fucking spot on – they hit these tones that could make a willow weep. The production on Asylum is huge, but not overwhelming or too polished. Their musicianship is otherworldly – at times it seems that this record acts as time machine & takes your mind to another place. This album is drenched in blackened soul & one place that this is evident is in the vocals that fill each song with pain. On tunes like “Edge of the Sky,” you can totally hear & feel the guitars cascade over you, before the keyboards lift you up into the black clouds…then you will descend back down to earth in apocalyptic crust bliss. The quiet riff on “Nothing to Remain” is so powerful & emotive; to put it simply, it’s just fucking beautiful, timeless music. Morne created a record that moves past labels & boxes in my book, and this is what is going to make people come back to Asylum in ten years and say this record still sounds rad as ever. It’s not easy to make complex music sound simple, but Morne were successful at it, and for that fact hats off to them. As I get older, it’s nice to hear how bands are taking the foundations of sonic culture & molding them in their own likeness. Asylum is a heavy album in many different ways, but emotional & vast in many more.
Morne : Nothing to Remain
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