By: Mark Tremblay
Album Type: Full Length
Date Released: 25/07/2017
Label: Zegema Beach Records,
Dingleberry
Records, Arkan Records,
R.I.P.
In Peace Records &
Dead Punx Records
Sarin has created an emotionally complicated record with many peaks
and valleys. If you strive for something that is truly genre defying, this
record is a must.
“Darker Lakes” DD//LP track listing:
01
– Ice Wrought
02 – Amber Guide
03 – Darker Lakes I Moraine
04 – Embers Circling Downward
05 – Darker Lakes II Crater
06 – Bloom
07 – Ocean Burn
08 – Darker Lakes III Glacial
09 – Low Moon
02 – Amber Guide
03 – Darker Lakes I Moraine
04 – Embers Circling Downward
05 – Darker Lakes II Crater
06 – Bloom
07 – Ocean Burn
08 – Darker Lakes III Glacial
09 – Low Moon
The Review:
Post-metal
is a confused term that gets thrown around casually far too often. Sarin’s “Darker
Lakes” is a call back to the works of early Hydra Head Records
bands, while at the same time pushing that sound father than previously
imagined.
Sarin’s follow up to their 2015 LP “Burial Dreams” showcases them expanding
beyond the realms of post-metal. The amount of nuance and textural elements
brought into the music makes it impossible to pin the band down to a single
sub-genre. To do so would be an injustice. All at the same time, Sarin has created their most uplifting and yet heaviest
record to date.
From
the positive vibes of tracks like “Amber
Guide” and “Ember Circling Downwards”,
to the bleak nature of “Bloom” and “Ocean Burns”, this album is meant to be
treated like a complete classical movement. The album transition sseamlessly
from one track to the next that playing it out of order would do the music an
disservice. The album can perfectly be summarized by the albums closing track;
“Low Moon”. In essence, Sarin has created an emotionally complicated record with
many peaks and valleys. If you strive for something that is truly genre
defying, this record is a must.
