Crack the Skye

Album · Released 24 March 2009

Crack the Skye

The voices provide the clearest route into Crack the Skye. Mastodon build their arrangements around melodic exchanges between Brann Dailor, Troy Sanders and Brent Hinds, giving the complicated guitar work a human centre. The result is heavy music with enough space to sound uncertain, mournful and quietly expectant as well as forceful. Oblivion introduces that approach through a dark opening figure and a series of contrasting vocal parts. Each…