Downward Is Heavenward

Album · Released 27 January 1998

Downward Is Heavenward

Hum

Isle of the Cheetah is a convincing argument for taking the long way through a rock song. Its guitars spread outward while Matt Talbott sings with a calm that makes the scale feel almost ordinary. Hum let the arrangement grow around a small human presence, and Downward Is Heavenward repeatedly finds strength in that relationship. The album sounds carefully worked through without losing its physical force. Distorted guitars have room to separate…

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