Sunn O))): Monoliths & Dimensions, Necks: Silverwater and Jack Rose: Jack Rose and the Black Twig Pickers | CD review

There are many reasons to admire Sunn 0))), a cowl-wearing, doom-metal duo. The 0))) in their name is silent, but implies rippling soundwaves. They have recorded vocals inside a coffin. They have a Hungarian collaborator called Attila who growls portentous pronouncements over their epochally slow and distorted low-end guitars. But this year's Monoliths & Dimensions album found choirs, strings, woodwinds and jazzmen pressed into dark servitude alongside him. It should have ended up as a hellish p...

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