Like the last post, this album belongs on a plateau of good things to come from post-rock in the last few years. Most of the more underground Urban Outfitter-inclined music fans have heard it, and it's probably even somehow overrated by those same rabid groups, but fuck me if this really isn't essential in some way or another. I'm definitely exaggerating, but take that last sentence with only half a grain of salt. Blessed are the Bonds is a fantastic album, chock full of strained passages and the kind of desperation only a dying non-theist knows.
One difference to note between this album and the last, however, is that they're almost complete opposites of one another. These Monsters... was relatively subdued, particularly in the climaxes, while this one thrives on them and emerges from "The Hymn" with the "Most Intense Post-Rock Album" award. For anyone who loves post-rock with tons of experimental and ambient flourishes, and maybe a dash of that screaming stuff.
@320: Part 1 & Part 2
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